Andrews House Magnet House
ANDREWS HOUSE, GALLOWGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024722
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Andrews House Magnet House
- Statutory Address:
- ANDREWS HOUSE, GALLOWGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024722
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Andrews House Magnet House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANDREWS HOUSE, GALLOWGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MAGNET HOUSE, GALLOWGATE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ANDREWS HOUSE, GALLOWGATE
- Statutory Address:
- MAGNET HOUSE, GALLOWGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ2455164471
Details
NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE GALLOWGATE
1833-/20/10003 Magnet House/
Andrews House
II
Offices and shops. c1930. Designed for the General Electric Company. Steel
frame clad with brick and Portland stone ashlar. Modern style. Slightly curved
facade, 6 storeys and 21 windows. Ground floor ashlar clad, with central
vehicular access with a pair of original steel gates, inscribed M.H. and A.H.
Eitherside are entrances to upper floor offices, both with double panel doors
and name plates above inscribed Magnet House and Andrews House, above
overlights that to the right with built-in lantern. Above each doorway a
projecting canopy with sloping bracket. Eitherside 2 shops, those to the right
with original fascia board, only the coffee lounge retains its original front.
Beyond to the left: a further doorway. Above, first floor ashlar clad, with 5
central windows in a single opening with unusual fluted mullions between, and
eitherside 8 slightly taller metal framed windows. The next 3 floors are clad
in brick with an ashlar cornice. The second and third floor windows are linked
vertically with panels between, the central 3 windows have a single ashlar
fluted surround, and set between the windows are 3 Art Deco style relief
panels with painted symbolic figures. Eitherside 9 windows, those at either
ends slightly narrower, with alternating Art Deco style relief panels and
moulded ashlar panels. Fourth floor has 3 central windows in a single opening
with unusual fluted mullions between, and eitherside 9 metal framed windows,
those at either ends slightly narrower. Fifth floor ashlar clad, set back
behind ashlar parapet, with central windows flanked by 9 wider metal framed
windows eitherside.
Listing NGR: NZ2455164471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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