Jarrow Town Hall

Jarrow Town Hall is a council office building dated 1902, designed by Fred Rennoldson of South Shields. It is constructed of bright red brick and bright red glazed terracotta, with a roof made of Welsh slate. The building has an L-plan layout and predominantly features a baroque style. It stands two storeys high with five bays and a corner turret on the main elevation, which has nine bays on the return.

The main elevation includes an entrance located in a three-storey tower in the fourth bay. This entrance features a deep semi-circular hood that is corbelled out from pilasters, and a broken pediment above the first-floor window. A later clock is positioned on the third storey, above a rusticated, aproned window opening. The ground floor is rusticated with wide, elliptical-headed windows that are three-light and transomed, framed in Gibbs surrounds. The first floor has three-light, mullioned and transomed brick windows with three-centred arched heads, some of which have blind tracery in the lower third. The building is adorned with strings and a modillioned eaves cornice, with pilasters defining the bays. The roof features a balustrade, a baroque dormer to the left of the entrance tower, and arches in the corner turret.

The left return consists of nine bays and includes a two-bay gable with a cartouche, a scrolled pediment, and an obelisk finial. There is also a three-storey entrance bay that has a 'County Court' cartouche at the center of four gabled bays. The corner bay is topped with a cornice and turret. A historical note mentions that the foundation stone was laid by Lady Palmer, and a plaque in the council chamber commemorates the decision made there in 1936 to march to London, known as the Jarrow march.