Garden Wall at Prestwick Hall

Garden Wall at Prestwick Hall

GARDEN WALLS SOUTH AND EAST OF PRESTWICK HALL
List Entry Summary

Grade: II

Date first listed: 22-Aug-1986

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PONTELAND PRESTWICK NZ 17 SE

17/352 Garden walls south and east of Prestwick Hall
GV II 
Garden walls. 1815 by John Dobson.
Brick in English Garden Wall Bond. 
Wall to north of house c.15 ft. high and 100 yards long, 
curving around north- west corner of garden.
 Boldy-splayed coping. 
Doorway in centre with battered stone surround; 
above it a stone panel carved with a wild boar ; 
2 flanking panels have knights and weapons. 
This was a heated wall and has chimneys 
shaped like acroteria. 
Ramped down to gateway, at north side, 
which has C20 wrought- iron gates. 

Wall on east side of garden is dressed stone.

Wall on east side, c.3½ft. high with flat coping.

Listing NGR: NZ1811072426

Footpath diversion 1816

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Prestwick Hall 1900

The 1911 Census shows that Prestwick Hall was occupied by 71 year old William Boyd and his of 40 years, 70 year old Jane Diana together with cook, Ellen Brown and 4 other female servants.

William Boyd, born in Arncliffe, Yorkshire, birth, first came to Wallsend in 1874, when he was invited to become managing director of the Wallsend Slipway Co. Under his direction the small shipyard became a major marine engine building concern, erecting the first steel boilers on the Tyne in 1878. Mr Boyd retired from management at the end of 1911.

He was involved in Wallsend local government from May 1878, when he became a member of the Local Board of Health. In April of the following year he was elected chairman of the board, and served in that position until 1894, when it was replaced by the new district council, of which he became the first chairman. Mr Boyd was elected an Alderman and first Mayor of the new council and continued to serve until October 2, 1906. On Wednesday, June 19, 1907, William Boyd laid the foundation stone for Wallsend's new Town Hall when a Freedom Ceremony was opened for him. By this time he had moved to Cheltenham, where he died in 1919.

The North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders was founded in November 1884 at the instigation of William Geddes Spence (1860-1946) of R.W. Hawthorn's marine engine works. William Boyd (1839-1919) Managing Director of the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Works served as its first President and is widely recognised as being the leading force behind the Institution's creation.

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Prestwick based charity accounts published

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TRUSTEES' REPORT AND UNAUDITED ACCOUNTS

Legacare Accounts

None of the trustees or anyone connected with the trustees received any remuneration or was reimbursed expenses in the period. During the period Margaret Kirby's, who is a trustee of the charity, legal practice Kirbys Solicitors provided legal services by way of consultancy to the charity to facilitate the charity's objectives to the value of £33,333 which is in accordance with the governing document. This ocurred because there was insufficient funding to recruit solicitors for the charity at this time, which would also include costs for professional indemnity insurance, practising certificates, CPD training as well as supervision and monitoring. This is a temporary measure until the Charity has sufficient funding to recruit solicitors and their associate core costs.