{"entry-date":"2025-11-25","start-date":"1984-02-19","end-date":"","entity":42190027,"name":"Old Customs House","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"06/0104/II","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":242,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.444783 55.004294, -1.444761 55.004322, -1.444737 55.004321, -1.444734 55.004323, -1.444676 55.004395, -1.444611 55.00448, -1.444602 55.004494, -1.444602 55.004501, -1.444604 55.004504, -1.444617 55.004511, -1.444777 55.004552, -1.44479 55.004537, -1.44485 55.004553, -1.444839 55.004567, -1.445029 55.004616, -1.445047 55.004593, -1.44502 55.004586, -1.445107 55.004469, -1.444968 55.004434, -1.445008 55.004383, -1.444893 55.004354, -1.444915 55.004327, -1.444783 55.004294), (-1.444886 55.004567, -1.445006 55.004599, -1.444925 55.004578, -1.444886 55.004567)))","point":"POINT (-1.444853 55.004459)","quality":"authoritative","uprns":"47012950","description":"Sailors' Home, now offices. 1854-6 by Benjamin Green for 4th Duke of Northumberland. Ashlar with rusticated ground floor; low-pitched Welsh slate roof. L-plan. 3 storeys and attic; 3, 3 and 3 bays defined by flat giant Ionic pilasters. 4-panelled door under 2-paned fanlight in third bay, and double door in glazed round-headed opening in fifth. Round-headed windows in other bays of ground floor. First-floor windows have stilted fanlights under fluted surrounds in bays 2 and 8; pediment in bay 5; architraves in remaining bays. Second floor and attic windows in plain reveals, all with glazing bars. Dentilled entablature to second floor; attic defined by pilasters under cornice and blocking course. Similar style left return to New Quay: 5 and 3 bays. Voussoirs to elliptical-headed carriage entrance in first bay. Ground floor windows boarded up at time of survey. Source: H.E. Craster History of Northumberland vol. VIII The Parish of Tynemouth 1907.","listed-building":"1355018"}