County Court and gates, piers and railings to front, 56 Westgate Road
County Court, 56, Westgate Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024731
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- County Court and gates, piers and railings to front, 56 Westgate Road
- Statutory Address:
- County Court, 56, Westgate Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024731
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- County Court and gates, piers and railings to front, 56 Westgate Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- County Court, 56, Westgate Road
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:
- County Court, 56, Westgate Road
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:
- NZ 24623 64031
Details
NZ 2464 SE
20/570
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
WESTGATE ROAD (north side)
No. 56 (County Court) and gates, piers and railings in front
17.12.71
GV
II
County Court building. Dated 1864. Sandstone ashlar with rusticated quoins to upper floors; dark slate roof. Classical style.
Three storeys, five bays and archway at left. Steps up to double door under fanlight in right bay; Rusticated ground floor forming voussoirs to end doors, four round-headed windows and left archway. Masks on arch keys. Margined sash windows, shallow segmental headed on first floor, and square-headed on second, those on upper floors in architraves which are lugged and keyed on first and have bracketed sills on second floors. Ground-floor entablature with dentilled cornice; second-floor sill band and lintel string which supports brackets to top cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof has tall ashlar chimneys with bracketed cornices. Royal Arms on blocking course above left archway; ground-floor frieze inscribed COUNTY COURT 1864. Four square piers flank carriage entrance at left and pedestrian entrance at right; flat-coped dwarf wall between supports spear-headed wrought iron railings and gates.
Listing NGR: NZ2462364031
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304922
- 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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