Addycombe Cottages With Attached Walls and Outbuildings
ADDYCOMBE COTTAGES WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 1-12, ADDYCOMBE GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1041930
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Addycombe Cottages With Attached Walls and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- ADDYCOMBE COTTAGES WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 1-12, ADDYCOMBE GARDENS
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1041930
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Addycombe Cottages With Attached Walls and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ADDYCOMBE COTTAGES WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 1-12, ADDYCOMBE GARDENS
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:
- ADDYCOMBE COTTAGES WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS, 1-12, ADDYCOMBE GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rothbury
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 05941 01935
Details
ROTHBURY ADDYCOMBE GARDENS NU 0501 25/259 Addycombe Cottages (Nos. 1-12 26.3.73 consecutive) with attached rear walls and outbuildings (formerly listed as pact of Nos 1-22 Addycombe Cottages) II
Terrace of houses 1873 by Norman Shaw for Lord Armstrong, restored and rear walls reduced in height 1978 by Spence & Price of Newcastle. Rubble with rock- faced and margined dressings; porches and gables of end houses half-timbered with pebbledash over brick infill; red clay tile roofs with ornamental terracotta ridges and finials, purple slates on rear outbuildings. 6 houses, divided from the first into flats, those on 1st floor entered from external staircases at rear. Domestic Revival style. Front elevation; stepped up slope; 2 storeys except for end houses 2 storeys + attic; each house 2 bays. Each has central porch, timber-framed on stone base, with 9-pane fixed casement and vertical-panelled door, on left return, in ogee-arched surround under gablet with projecting bargeboards. 2-, 3- and 4-light mullioned-and-transomed windows holding plain casements; lst-floor windows in intermediate houses in gabled half dormers: end houses have broad timber-framed attic gables, the upper parts set forward on moulded corbels, each with a 3-light small-paned casement window; plain bargeboards. Coped intermediate gables, end and ridge stacks with battered faces.
Returns each show broad gable with attic slit and pent projection below; intermediate houses have projecting gabled wings, both with attached outhouses showing asymmetric-pitched roofs. East end house has broad gable above late C20 rear wing in same style. External stone stairs to balconies and upper flat doors in wings. Attached yard walls with re-set arched coping.
Built as cottages for retiring staff of the Armstrong household.
Listing NGR: NU0593801947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236604
- 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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