Education Committee Distribution Centre office (Ouseburn Schools)
Education Committee Distribution Centre office (Ouseburn Schools), Albion Row
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024947
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Education Committee Distribution Centre office (Ouseburn Schools)
- Statutory Address:
- Education Committee Distribution Centre office (Ouseburn Schools), Albion Row
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024947
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Education Committee Distribution Centre office (Ouseburn Schools)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Education Committee Distribution Centre office (Ouseburn Schools), Albion Row
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:
- Education Committee Distribution Centre office (Ouseburn Schools), Albion Row
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 26517 64248
Details
NZ 26 SE
12/73
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
ALBION ROW (west side)
Education Committee Distribution Centre office (Ouseburn Schools)
17.12.71
GV.
II*
School, now offices. 1893 by F.W. Rich. Four-and-one English garden wall bond brick with ashlar and moulded brick dressings; Welsh slate roof. Three ranges almost enclosing yard. Eclectic style with C17 and C18 elements.
Two storeys and attics in three-bay north range; three-storey wings return inwards from corner towers and enclose two-storey sections. Four-stage towers have keyed brick open arches, that at right blocked; long window above in Gibbs surround; two sashes under flat brick arches in third stage and blank fourth; very wide modillioned eaves; ogee-hipped roof with hipped dormers; and on top, three tiers of eaves, the lower two octagonal and the top round, to parabolic roof with low-hipped dormers and ball-and-spike finial, like a Burmese temple roof.
Wings have arched entrance porches, GIRLS inscribed at left and BOYS at right, flanked by pedimented pilasters; elliptical and flat brick arches and moulded sills to sashes with glazing bars; keyed oculi on second floor above porches; hipped roofs. North range has double-chamfered stone mullioned and transomed windows; high shaped gable with swan-neck pediment; over centre section flanked by six-light windows under lower dormers with shaped gables. Moulded brick floor strings; brick and ashlar pilaster and quoin strips. Tall corniced chimneys with strings.
Listing NGR: NZ2651764248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304372
- 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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