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Wallace Green, BERWICK-UPON-TWEED, TD15 1FD

This building formed the main part of the offices for the former Berwick upon Tweed Borough Council. Since local government reorganisation they now house the towns outpost of Northumberland County Council.

This lovely building now houses council offices. Built in 1844 as a gaol, the building became a court house/police station and was then sold to the Urban Sanitary Authority. The plaque above the door reads 'Urban Sanitary Authority Building' 'William Young Esquire, J.P. Mayor'

Situated in Wallace Green, dating from 1844 and designed by well known Scottish architect Thomas Brown of Edinburgh this was originally Berwick’s Courthouse and Jail. Later about 1892 used as Berwick upon Tweed Council Offices until 2015. Grade II listed. Now converted into 4 large houses with a 2 bed apartment in the old stable loft at the rear. Incorporated into the new design are the former prison cells on 2nd floor, cellar and former vault/ saferoom and a former chapel on 3rd floor.

This was originally the Courthouse and Jail dating from 1844. It was then used as the Council Offices 1892-2015 for Berwick-Upon-Tweed. The building has recently been converted into 4 large houses.

Originally the town jail and converted in 1892; now disused.

Walking up Church Street, to approach Wallace Green and the ramparts beyond.

A. C. Fox-Davies in "The Book of Public Arms" (p. 80; downloadable from archive.org) has a bit of a rant about this... "Has no armorial bearings. The seal represents a bear standing upon a mount and against a tree all between two escutcheons each charged with France and England quarterly, above is placed under a Gothic canopy the figure of a king seated ... In Burke's "General Armory" this is blazoned as a coat-of-arms in the following words: Argent on a mount a bear standing against a tree, all proper, the bear collared and chained or, in fesse two escutcheons, on each the Arms of France and England quarterly, on a chief of the first (sic) a king crowned and habited of the second, holding in his dexter paw (sic) a mount and in the sinister a sceptre, both gold."

Berwick-upon-Tweed is a town in the county of Northumberland and is the northernmost town in England, on the east coast at the mouth of the River Tweed. It is situated 2.5 miles (4 km) south of the Scottish border.