Bede Monastery Museum Jarrow Old Hall

Bede Monastery Museum, formerly known as Jarrow Old Hall, is a house built in 1785 for Simon Temple, a coal owner. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a roof made of Welsh slate. It has a simple rectangular shape with a set-back wing to the north. The main house is two storeys high, with three bays across the front and one bay in the set-back wing.

On the west elevation, there is a central six-panelled door located under a decorated round fanlight, set in a panelled recess and framed by a dentilled open pedimented Tuscan doorcase. The sash windows have cill bands and flat stone lintels, with an eaves cornice above. The south elevation has five windows, with the central three arranged in a semicircular bay that features a pointed parapet with rendered coping. The cill bands and stone lintels are present, although the lintels above the central three windows are of later date, as are the fixed light windows; the other windows are sash windows with glazing bars. The roof is hipped, with two transverse corniced ridge chimneys made of brick, and the wing has a half-hipped roof.

Inside, the museum features cornices in the lower and upper halls, six-panelled doors set in panelled reveals with reeded architraves, and fluted pilasters that support the hall arches. The open well staircase has decorated tread ends, with two plain square balusters for each tread and an inlaid handrail that features a spiral curtail. There is also a Venetian landing window with Gothick tracery and low relief heads on either side of a round-headed window.