39 AND 41, LOW FRIAR STREET

39 AND 41, LOW FRIAR STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024836
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
39 AND 41, LOW FRIAR STREET
Statutory Address:
39 AND 41, LOW FRIAR STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1024836
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
39 AND 41, LOW FRIAR STREET
Statutory Address 1:
39 AND 41, LOW FRIAR STREET

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
39 AND 41, LOW FRIAR STREET

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 24504 64103

Details

NZ 2464 SW and NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE LOW FRIAR STREET NZ 2464 SE (east side) 19/371 and 20/371 Nos. 39 and 41 G.V. II Shops and houses. Late C18/early C19 with late C19 shops. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Curved right corner to Fenkle Street includes No. 16 (q.v.), the house above No. 41 Low Friar Street. 3 storeys, 6 bays. No. 39, 3-bay shop at left, has central door in architrave; 2 curved corner bays with deeply recessed entrance at left; one bay on Fenkle Street has 2 steps up to 5-panelled door and overlight with glazing bars in architrave; shop fascias and brackets covered in hardboard. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes above,with late C19 glazing bars. Roof curved at corner; brick ridge chimneys. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ2450464103

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Legacy System number:
304692
Legacy System:
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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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