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Public Lavatory, Outbuilding and Enclosing Walls, to East of Link House

A Grade II Listed Building in Blyth, Northumberland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.1105 / 55°6'37"N

Longitude: -1.4997 / 1°29'58"W

OS Eastings: 432013

OS Northings: 579680

OS Grid: NZ320796

Mapcode National: GBR K9ZB.3T

Mapcode Global: WHC30.YT02

Plus Code: 9C7W4G62+54

Entry Name: Public Lavatory, Outbuilding and Enclosing Walls, to East of Link House

Listing Date: 7 April 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1276282

English Heritage Legacy ID: 236084

ID on this website: 101276282

Location: Northumberland, NE24

County: Northumberland

Civil Parish: Blyth

Built-Up Area: Blyth

Traditional County: Northumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland

Church of England Parish: Blyth St Cuthbert

Church of England Diocese: Newcastle

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Description


BLYTH LINKS ROAD
NZ 37 NW
(EAST SIDE)
5/122 Public lavatory,
out-building and
enclosing walls,
to east of
Link House
GV II
Engine house for Defence Electric Light installation, 1914-19, now public
convenience. Brick in English Bond with concrete dressings and reinforced
concrete roof. Rectangular building in sunk walled enclosure with outbuilding
to north. Single storey, 6 bays: projecting porch at left end (now inscribed
'LADIES'), 4 windows, reduced in size, with stop-chamfered lintels; Gents'
doorway on right return is later insertion. Slightly-pitched roof with
overhanging eaves. Enclosing wall with pitched coping, extended to north-west
to flank curving approach; end piers with pyramidal caps; flight of steps at
south-west corner. Embayment in north wall, with later concrete roof, housed
cooling tanks; embayment on east with bases for petrol and oil tanks. The
building housed 2 dynamos with Crossley engines, powering the defence electric
light emplacements (q.v.) 50 metres to the east. As part of a World War 1
D.E.L. installation it is a rare survival.

Listing NGR: NZ3201379680

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