Plummer Tower
PLUMMER TOWER, CROFT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1024884
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Plummer Tower
- Statutory Address:
- PLUMMER TOWER, CROFT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1024884
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Plummer Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLUMMER TOWER, CROFT 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:
- PLUMMER TOWER, CROFT 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 25200 64416
Details
NZ 2564 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CROFT STREET (east side)
21/210 17/12/71 Plummer Tower
G.V. I
Town Wall tower, later Company Meeting Hall, now offices. Late C13/early C14; refronted c.1740; house added late C18. Sandstone tower, coursed and squared, with ashlar front and returns; Welsh slate roof. Semi-circular; Palladian style front of 2 storeys, one wide bay. 2 steps up to boarded door and 2-pane overlight in keyed architrave; similar architraves to flanking windows; ground floor rustication forms voussoirs. First floor band supports end pilasters and central plinth of high Venetian window in Doric Order with triglyph frieze; block rustication to central arch. All windows sashes with wide glazing bars. Top entablature has pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice; high coped parapet. Hipped roof. Right return has door and 3-pane overlight at first floor level in rusticated surround with cornice. Later house at left: English garden wall bond, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Bricked-up central door has wedge stone lintel; renewed door inserted at right in stone surround. Wedge lintels and projecting stone sills to windows flanking blocked door and to first floor windows, all sashes with glazing bars. Small rectangular window at centre of first floor has header course sill and lintel. Wall at right of tower has high- sloped coping to shelter wall of walk-way at tower first floor level; side stone steps in front; stone platform around steps has cast iron principals, with urn finials, and plain wrought iron railings. A scheduled ancient monument.
Listing NGR: NZ2520064416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304520
- 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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