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Latitude: 55.0104 / 55°0'37"N
Longitude: -1.5745 / 1°34'28"W
OS Eastings: 427309
OS Northings: 568512
OS Grid: NZ273685
Mapcode National: GBR KBFH.XP
Mapcode Global: WHC3K.SBF8
Plus Code: 9C7W2C6G+55
Entry Name: Ethel Williams Hall (formerly known as the Northern Counties Orphanage)
Listing Date: 19 February 1986
Last Amended: 17 December 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1025390
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303250
Also known as: Northern Counties Orphanage
ID on this website: 101025390
Location: Benton, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE12
County: North Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: Benton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Newcastle upon Tyne
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Long Benton St Bartholomew
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Building Orphanage Clergy house Hall of residence
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LONGBENTON
FRONT STREET (north side)
Ethel Williams Hall (formerly known as the Northern Counties Orphanage)
(formerly listed as Ethel Williams Hall (part), previously listed as North house)
GV
II
Vicarage; orphanage in C20; now university hall of residence.Circa 1734 for C.Hayton; c.1757 entrance hall and dining room. Coursed irregularly-squared sandstone; Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable coping on curved kneelers at rear, renewed kneelers
at front. Ashlar front and brick rear chimneys. Two storeys and attics; five windows. Renewed door with overlight in flat stone surround in fourth bay. Plain narrow sashes in wide boxes; flat stone lintels and sills. Two later hipped dormers, with glazing bars, in double-span roof.
Interior shows panelled room at front left with plain, bracketed, chimney piece; ceiling concealed by inserted ceiling; lugged pedimented architrave to door to rear room; partly-replaced ramped handrail to stair; some two-panelled cupboard doors and internal shutters.
Sources: (Besley) Desultory Notices of the Church and Vicarage of Long Benton, Newcastle, 1843 p.10. M. Hope Dodds History of Northumberland vol. XIII 1930, p.400.
Listing NGR: NZ2730968512
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