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Latitude: 54.9991 / 54°59'56"N
Longitude: -1.4313 / 1°25'52"W
OS Eastings: 436476
OS Northings: 567322
OS Grid: NZ364673
Mapcode National: GBR LBFM.XR
Mapcode Global: WHD4R.ZLLY
Plus Code: 9C6WXHX9+MF
Entry Name: The Former Marine School (Ocean Road Annexe)
Listing Date: 1 February 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1232318
English Heritage Legacy ID: 407673
ID on this website: 101232318
Location: South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE33
County: South Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: Beacon and Bents
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: South Shields
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: South Shields St Aidan and St Stephen (The Lawe)
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1.
5102 OCEAN ROAD
(north side)
The Former Marine School
(Ocean Road Annexe)
NZ 3667 SW 4/53
II
2.
1867-69. T M Clemence, Borough Surveyor.
1909. Addition in Wesley Street. T A Page & Son, Architects.
Red brick, with stone dressings and flat roof. Dignified essay in the "Elizabethan"
style, with projecting bays, tall transom and mullioned windows and classical details.
Two storeys, 3 bay square plan. Most of the bays break forward. All corners are
marked by rusticated quoins.
The central entrance from Ocean Road has a grand stone doorcase of paired rusticated
Tuscan columns with full entablature.
The elevation crowned by entablature and balustrade. The balustrade pierced above
the breaks forward and with decorative cresting above.
The bay at the south-east corner is carried up one full storey above the roof level
to form a square tower crowned by an entablature and pierced balustrade. It is lit
by a semi-circular headed window in each face. The tower originally carried an
observatory which was removed in 1979.
The building was cleaned and restored, April 1980.
This was the original building built for the Marine School.
Listing NGR: NZ3647667322
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