The Albert Public House

The Albert Public House is a public house built in 1908 by J W Wardle of South Shields for Messrs John Rowell and Sons Ltd. It features yellow and brown faience and brick, with a roof made of Welsh slate, and is designed in a free baroque style. The building is two stories tall and has five bays.

The ground floor is clad in faience and includes a central double door with a round fanlight, which is set between adapted Ionic pilasters. These pilasters support an open, broken segmental pediment that encloses a cartouche above the keystone. To the left of the door are transomed and mullioned windows with two and three lights, while to the right are windows with three lights each. These windows have cill aprons, lugged architraves, elliptical heads, and large keystones, and are flanked by Ionic pilasters. The pilasters between the first and second windows, and the third and fourth windows, support open pediments that contain cartouches.

The building has a six-bay return that mirrors the style of the front. A continuous cornice is supported at the recessed corner by a large cartouche decorated with fruit and flowers. The fascia includes name panels and a cornice at the first-floor cill level.

On the first floor, the building is constructed of Flemish bond brick and features two sash windows above the central door, two to the right, and a blank wall to the left. The return has four windows and a double sash. The roof has two gables positioned centrally over the pairs of ground floor windows, with the return having one gable. All gables have stone coping, and there are bands, cartouches, and corniced chimneys made of yellow terracotta. Some windows are adorned with art nouveau glass. This public house is a rebuilding of an earlier establishment.