Master Mariners' Homes

TYNEMOUTH TYNEMOUTH ROAD (north side) NZ 36 NE Tynemouth 8/129 Master Mariners' Homes G.V. II Almshouses, now 18 old people's homes. 1837, by J.and B. Green for Tyne Mariners' Benevolent Institution; land given by Duke of Northumberland; restored 1973. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roof; lead tower roof. Jacobean style, E-plan with central tower, symmetrical. 2 storeys, 2 groups of 3 bays each, the other groups breaking forward under paired gables. Open-arched ground floor in central projecting bay with 3-storey tower; first floor niche containing commemorative inscription and arms of Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne, under elaborate dripmould; clock stage above has corbel table and cornice; ogee-hipped roof with square bellcote and vane. Inserted C.20 doors in central bays of wings; centres of groups flanking tower have inserted casements in blocked doorways. Each central bay projects slightly under shaped gable and is flanked by first-floor corbelled oriels under smaller shaped gables. Casement windows, 3-light on ground floor and 2- light above. High-sloped gable copings, with spear finials and moulded kneelers to principal gables. Conjoined octagonal chimneys at apex of gables to street, ridge chimneys on double span roof.

Listing NGR: NZ3645969076