This is Tynemouth Watch House, headquarters of the town's volunteer life brigade since it was built in 1887. It was designed by Joseph F. Gomoszynski.
It is like a New England rendering of the sort of late Victorian house you find on Leicester's London Road.
Today the Watch House is home to a museum, though it was locked when I was there last week. It is also due for a major refurbishment.
It forms part of a distinctive group of buildings that stand between the sea and the Collingwood Monument. There is something of Southwold about them.
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