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Picture source: Simon Armstrong

The Scotia was situated on Mile End Road. This grade-II listed pub was built c1900 after the original was demolished to make way for road widening.

Listed building details:

1903-04. Henry Grieves architect. Red brick with ashlar dressings to doors and windows etc. Slate roof. Three storeys. Edwardian "baroque" with some nice art nouveau embellishments. Quadrant corner with King Street and the bay arrangement is as follows:- one to King Street, 3 to the quadrant and 6 to Mile End Road. The second and fourth bays to Mile End Road break forward and have semi-circular pediments rising above the stone modillioned eaves cornice. The end sixth bay is carried above the eaves to form a small square tower. This has a pyramidal roof with a nice spikey wrought iron finial. Ground floor openings have semi-circular heads with heavy "Gibbs" surrounds. First floor openings have rusticated architraves with large keystones and stone aprons. The centre window of the quadrant and those in the second and fourth bays to Mile End Road have Ionic pilasters, entablatures and semi-circular pediments. Third floor windows plain rectangular openings with stone frames. Above the curved roof of the quadrant rises a little circular turret cap and with a fine art nouveau wrought iron fleche. This is a nice "conceit" and makes a most successful feature to this corner. This building is the best example of its type in South Shields.

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