ACCOMMODATION ARCH AND RAILWAY VIADUCT BETWEEN HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, CASTLE GARTH AND CENTRAL STATION

ACCOMMODATION ARCH AND RAILWAY VIADUCT BETWEEN HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, CASTLE GARTH AND CENTRAL STATION, QUEENS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1024800
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: ACCOMMODATION ARCH AND RAILWAY VIADUCT BETWEEN HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, CASTLE GARTH AND CENTRAL STATION
Statutory Address:: ACCOMMODATION ARCH AND RAILWAY VIADUCT BETWEEN HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, CASTLE GARTH AND CENTRAL STATION, QUEENS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1024800
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: ACCOMMODATION ARCH AND RAILWAY VIADUCT BETWEEN HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, CASTLE GARTH AND CENTRAL STATION
Statutory Address 1:: ACCOMMODATION ARCH AND RAILWAY VIADUCT BETWEEN HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, CASTLE GARTH AND CENTRAL STATION, QUEENS LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ACCOMMODATION ARCH AND RAILWAY VIADUCT BETWEEN HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, CASTLE GARTH AND CENTRAL STATION, QUEENS LANE

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 24969 63849

Details

NZ 2463 NE and NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE QUEENS LANE NZ 2563 NW Accommodation arch and 23/470 and 24/470 railway viaduct between High Level Bridge, 14.6.54 Castle Garth and Central Station. G.V. II Accommodation arch over Queen's Lane, and railway viaduct either side and from Central Station to Castle Garth. Thomas Harrison engineer, for Newcastle, York and Berwick Railway; c.1890, William Bell engineer, for North-Eastern Railway. Sandstone ashlar and brick. Y-plan. Ashlar skew arch over Queen's Lane and viaduct arches either side have voussoirs; brick-lined viaduct arches; wide pilasters flank arches. Cornice at rail-bed level and impost string between arches. Flat-coped parapet, high on north side parallel with Westgate Road, partly removed. Some arches bricked up and with doors inserted.

Listing NGR: NZ2496963849

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Legacy System number:: 304800
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.