Victoria Buildings
VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 42-50, GRAINGER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024867
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 42-50, GRAINGER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024867
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 42-50, GRAINGER 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.
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:
- VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 42-50, GRAINGER 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 24729 64098
Details
NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE GRAINGER STREET (east side) 20/263 Nos. 42-50 even (Victoria Buildings) G.V. II Shops and offices. Dated 1874; by Matthew Thompson for Sir Walter Scott. Some ground floor alterations c.1980. Sandstone ashlar; dark slate roof. Italianate style. 3 storeys and attics; 9 bays. Rusticated piers to ground floor, that at centre right altered; central renewed office door; bracketed cornice. Pilasters to upper floors, fluted in end bays, are Tuscan Order on first floor, framing arched windows with shell-carved tympana; similar carving to paired central second floor windows under round arch with lozenge ornament in tympanum ; plainer windows in other bays, between wide pilasters with brackets to top cornice. End and central attics of one and 3 lights have garland-ornamented pilasters under open pediments; linking balustrades with urn finials.
Listing NGR: NZ2472964098
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304578
- 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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