55-59, GREY STREET
55-59, GREY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024875
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1965
- List Entry Name:
- 55-59, GREY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 55-59, GREY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024875
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1965
- List Entry Name:
- 55-59, GREY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55-59, GREY 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:
- 55-59, GREY 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 24919 64235
Details
NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE GREY STREET (west side) 20/281 12/11/65 Nos. 55-59 odd G.V. II* Shops and houses, now offices. Circa 1837 by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Circa 1900 shop renewed at right; at left (in style of 1900) renewed c.1982. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 4 storeys, 3 bays. Ground floor Tuscan Order; giant Ionic above. Shops have curved glass to recessed entrances and slender pilasters to lights with curved top corners. 8-panelled house door and overlight in deep reveal at right. Sash windows with glazing bars on all floors ; pilasters above prominent second-floor cornice. Top cornice and blocking course. Ridge chimneys.
Listing NGR: NZ2491964235
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304598
- 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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