4, NELSON DRIVE

4, NELSON DRIVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041864
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
4, NELSON DRIVE
Statutory Address:
4, NELSON DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041864
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
4, NELSON DRIVE
Statutory Address 1:
4, NELSON DRIVE

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:
4, NELSON DRIVE

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Newton-on-the-Moor and Swarland
National Grid Reference:
NU 16508 03712

Details

NEWTON-ON-THE-MOOR NELSON DRIVE NU 10 SE Swarland 6/182 No. 4 GV II

Bungalow. 1936 by M.P. Reavell for the Fountains Abbey Settlers Society. Brick, rendered and colourwashed cream; flat felted roof. L-plan. Single storey, 3 bays. Plinth. Centre bay has 2 steps up to door of four horizontal panels, the topmost glazed, with window on right. Two small windows in right bay; left bay set forward with window near left end. Flat roof with overhung eaves; right-of-centre and left end stacks. Left return shows projecting chimney breast with tiled offsets; windows to left and right. Right return shows boarded door with window to right. Rear elevation shows large living- room window,and small window to right, in centre bay; end bays have windows set close to ends. All windows iron-framed casements with horizontal bars and red tile sills.

The only surviving unaltered example of the smallest of the four types of settlers' houses, and of modern movement design on such a small scale in Northern England.

Listing NGR: NU1650803712

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
236851
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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