Former Library
FORMER LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024760
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Library
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024760
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
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:
- FORMER LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
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 24678 65137
Details
NZ 2465 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE (east side) 14/553 Former library GV II Library, now university club. 1926 by A. Dunbar Smith. English bond brick with diaper work; ashlar dressings; roof of plain tiles. Basement and one high storey; 3 bays, the outer ones projecting, and set-back right entrance bay. Square-headed double door in architrave. 7-light stone mullioned-and-transomed canted bay windows in wide bays. Floor and eaves strings. Moulded coping to parapet. Hipped roof has central ventilator with ogee octagonal dome and ball finial.
Listing NGR: NZ2467865137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304902
- 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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