Tyne Theatre and Opera House
TYNE THEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE, 117, WESTGATE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 4AG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1024741
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Tyne Theatre and Opera House
- Statutory Address:
- TYNE THEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE, 117, WESTGATE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 4AG
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1024741
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tyne Theatre and Opera House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TYNE THEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE, 117, WESTGATE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 4AG
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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.
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:
- TYNE THEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE, 117, WESTGATE ROAD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 4AG
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 24362 64043
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/05/2017
NZ 2464 SW
19/600
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
WESTGATE ROAD (south side)
No 117, Tyne Theatre and Opera House
(Formerly listed as The New Tyne Theatre, WESTGATE ROAD, previously listed as the Stoll Picture Theatre)
31.5.74
GV
I
Theatre and opera house, later cinema; now theatre. 1867 by W.B. Parnell for Cowan. Bought by Oswald Stoll and opened as cinema in 1919. Italianate front of three storeys, five bays (the outer bays narrower) in pale brick with stone dressings. Stone cornice with long brackets, tall parapet and pediment over; small semi-circular pediments, flanked by urns, at sides. Arcaded second floor. Ground floor modernised. Lozenge or pointed first floor window.
Painted advertisement on left return gable: THE/STOLL/TYNESIDE'S/TALKIE/THEATRE.
Interior; Horse-shoe shaped auditorium with three tiers of balconies on cast iron columns with floral capitals and long cantilever brackets. Balconies S-curved with thick applied baroque decoration. One set of boxes at either side framed in Orders below and by two large female terms at top stage. Shell-shaped ceiling and very high proscenium arch. An exceptionally complete surviving example of early stage machinery. Deep stage with five sets of tabs, machinery and control panel. Complete switchboard for earliest electric lighting. Very deep and high back:stage, dressing and ancillary rooms with many period features.
Source: Mackintosh and Sell eds. Curtains!!! 1982.
Listing NGR: NZ2436264043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304955
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mackintosh, I, Sell, M, Curtains or New Life for Old Theatres, (1982)
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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