Holly House and Walls and Piers in Front

HOLLY HOUSE AND WALLS AND PIERS IN FRONT, 14, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1025371
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Holly House and Walls and Piers in Front
Statutory Address:
HOLLY HOUSE AND WALLS AND PIERS IN FRONT, 14, FRONT STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1025371
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Holly House and Walls and Piers in Front
Statutory Address 1:
HOLLY HOUSE AND WALLS AND PIERS IN FRONT, 14, FRONT 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HOLLY HOUSE AND WALLS AND PIERS IN FRONT, 14, FRONT STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 36858 69420

Details

TYNEMOUTH FRONT STREET (north side) NZ 3669 SE Tynemouth 9/57 No. 14 (Holly House) and walls and piers in front. G.V. II House; now art gallery, dental surgery and one residence. Early C19 incorporating late C18 house. Moulded painted ashlar plinth; brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings and 2 end brick chimneys, that at right ashlar-corniced. Basement, 2 storeys and 5 windows. Central 9-panelled door and overlight, recessed in architrave. 9-panelled door in basement fourth bay. Painted wedge stone lintels to sash windows with glazing bars; ground-floor projecting sills; first floor sill band. Eaves gutter board. Rear wing shows ground-floor lintels with false keystones and central porch with later upper storey. Interior: Gothic- style glazing around inner entrance door. Tall square-headed landing door, with blocked overlight, formerly giving access to roof of porch. Walls with painted stone coping running forward from ends of house; straight section then ramped down to square piers with cornices and low pyramidal tops.

Listing NGR: NZ3685869420

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
303303
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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