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Irvins Building
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| CURIE | listed-building-outline:06/0178/II | no fact link |
| Prefix | listed-building-outline | Facts about Prefix |
| Reference | 06/0178/II | Facts about Reference |
| Name | Irvins Building | Facts about Name |
| Quality | Authoritative: We have some data from the authoritative source | no fact link |
| Dataset | Listed building outline | no fact link |
| Organisation | North Tyneside Council | no fact link |
| Start date | 2002-07-01 | Facts about Start date |
| End date | Facts about End date | |
| Entry date | 2026-01-28 | Facts about Entry date |
| Typology | geography | no fact link |
| Geometry |
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POINT (-1.434843 55.010332)
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| Uprns | 47207115 | Facts about Uprns |
| Description | Offices, sale room, chandlers' shop, workshops and warehouse of Richard Irvin and Sons. 1913. Red brick with ashlar dressings; hipped slate roof to range on right, flat roof to steel-framed or reinforced concrete range to left. PLAN: office range located to right (NE) of warehouse which is cranked towards the N. EXTERIOR: 2-storey office to right has modillion cornice to deep band, outer canted bay windows and central window all with stone-mullions and cross transoms; swags carved in band above ground floor openings, all square-headed with carved brackets to cornice over and pilasters rising to pyramidal finials flanking shop window to right. Tall 4-storey 3-bay range to left, with three segmental-arched openings to ashlar ground floor and recessed bays articulated by pilasters with flat-relief carved capitals beneath broad entablature and cornice with stepped central parapet; segmental-arched windows. INTERIOR: timber columns with cast-iron compression columns to range on left; the timber floors said to have marks on the floor where the nets were pinned out for repair. Reported to have oak panelling etc in range on right. HISTORY: This building has stylised architectural detailing typical of the period and is the most prominent building on the harbour front at North Shields. It was built as a multi-functional commercial premises for Richard Irvin and Sons, fishing boat owners, fish salesmen and auctioneers. Irvin was a renowned pioneer of steam trawling, and was reputed to be the largest operator in the industry outside Peterhead in Scotland. Being such a large employer (with over 30 boats and hundreds of workers), Irvins ran a banking system for their own employees which was housed in the office range, which had a first-floor boardroom, on the right. This building is a large-scale, prominent and historically important example of the industrial-scale, specialist fishing port that was the creation of the last quarter of the C19, and was concentrated around the North Sea ports of England and Scotland. | Facts about Description |
| Listed building | 1061408 | Facts about Listed building |
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