42-50, GREY STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1024879
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1965
List Entry Name:: 42-50, GREY STREET
Statutory Address:: 42-50, GREY STREET

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Date:: 2004-04-04
Reference:: IOE01/11323/33
Rights:: © Mr Gordon Dixon. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1024879
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1965
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: 42-50, GREY STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 42-50, GREY STREET

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:: 42-50, 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 24986 64186

Details

NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE GREY STREET (east side) 20/293 12/11/65 part (Nos. 48 and 50) Nos. 42 to 50 even 17/12/71 (Nos. 42 to 46) G.V. II Shops and houses now bank. Circa 1960 rebuilding of 1836 work by John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. In style of the original except for ground floor which has no plinth, and a mezzanine inserted. 4 storeys, 8 bays. Giant attached Corinthian columns, with angle helices, define bays; sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals. Second floor entablature with prominent modillioned cornice; top floor has pilasters, cornice and square urn finials. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ2498664186

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Legacy System number:: 304610
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.