Atlas Chambers Shop in Occupation of Messrs Jacksons

ATLAS CHAMBERS, 88, WESTGATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024732
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Atlas Chambers Shop in Occupation of Messrs Jacksons
Statutory Address:
ATLAS CHAMBERS, 88, WESTGATE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024732
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Atlas Chambers Shop in Occupation of Messrs Jacksons
Statutory Address 1:
ATLAS CHAMBERS, 88, WESTGATE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
SHOP IN OCCUPATION OF MESSRS JACKSONS, WESTGATE ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ATLAS CHAMBERS, 88, WESTGATE ROAD
Statutory Address:
SHOP IN OCCUPATION OF MESSRS JACKSONS, 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 24465 64051

Details

NZ 2464 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE WESTGATE ROAD (north side) 19/572 No. 88 (Atlas Chambers) and shop in occupation of Messrs. Jacksons GV II Shop and offices. Dated 1894 on corner turret. Sandstone ashlar; pink granite office door surround, roof not visible; fishscale copper roof to corner turret. 4 storeys and attic; 6 bays to Westgate Road with right curved corner bay to Clayton Street and one tripartite bay on right return. Office entrance at left: panelled double door and overlight recessed in architrave with tall double key to entablature resting on rusticated pilasters. Altered shop fronts. Upper floors have sashes with glazing bars in lugged architraves. Those on first floor have high moulded friezes, with central carved panel, under cornices with central semi-circular pediment; segmental-headed second-floor sashes have block rustication and key bracket. Giant Ionic Order frames these floors and supports entablature with modillioned cornice. Top windows flanked by paired attached Tuscan columns under top entablature. Corner turret has date panel below colonnade with paired corner columns, all with block rustication, and narrow scrolled pediments over corner projections. Domed roof. Roof balustrade supports consoles flanking 2 dormers, sashes in architraves with tall keys under segmental pediments. Tall chimneys have pilasters and cornices.

Listing NGR: NZ2446564051

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
304924
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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