28 AND 30, CLOSE
28 AND 30, CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1024915
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 28 AND 30, CLOSE
- Statutory Address:
- 28 AND 30, CLOSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02260/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1024915
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 28 AND 30, CLOSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 28 AND 30, CLOSE
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:
- 28 AND 30, CLOSE
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 25052 63771
Details
NZ 2563 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CLOSE (north side)
24/188 Nos. 28 and 30 (14.6.54)
G.V. I
Large late C16 merchant's house, altered. Dressed stone ground floor, upper facade of C18 or early C19 English bond brick with a second floor band. Pantiled roof. Late Cl7 timber-framed rear extension rests on an older stone base and re-uses some original windows. Brick nogging and a corrugated iron roof. Front of No. 28 four storeys, five bays; No. 30 three storeys, three bays. Plain door and sash windows, some with glazing bars. Inside the unity may be seen. The first and second floors of the front range each consist of one enormous room whose chief feature is a ceiling of close-set beams completely plastered, with quasi-classical side mouldings and bands of renaissance ornament below and between. Paired birds, flowers, scrolls and arabesque patterns involving animals appear. The thistle is a frequent motif. The ornament may be compared to C16 Scottish painted work. A contemporary stone fireplace with flattened Tudor arch and sharp shallow roll mouldings is on first floor. Stone mullioned windows of two, three and five lights have a double hollow chamfer. In the rear extension is a handsome oak staircase with urn and spiral turned balusters, thick moulded handrail, and moulded closed string. The ground floor is high and plain, suggesting that it may always have had a mercantile use. Much of the second floor ceiling had fallen down and the building was in poor condition at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ2505263771
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304495
- 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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