Rothbury Motors Garage
ROTHBURY MOTORS GARAGE, TOWN FOOT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041949
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rothbury Motors Garage
- Statutory Address:
- ROTHBURY MOTORS GARAGE, TOWN FOOT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041949
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rothbury Motors Garage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROTHBURY MOTORS GARAGE, TOWN FOOT
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:
- ROTHBURY MOTORS GARAGE, TOWN FOOT
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 05918 01830
Details
ROTHBURY TOWN FOOT Nu 0501 (North side) 25/306 Rothbury Mbtors Garage II
Garage, dated 1913 with initials J.T.L. Rock-faced front and dressings, snecked stone returns; Welsh slate roof with glazed sections and red tile cresting. 2 storeys. Broad 3-bay gabled front with large buttresses has pair of shop windows flanking central recess with 2 part-glazed doors; datestone above, beneath 4-light casement window. Boarded double doors under basket arch in left bay, and casement window to right. Stepped and shaped gable with flat coping. Left return in 2 parts: main 9-bay part with stepped buttresses and windows in alternate bays, lower unbuttressed 2-bay part to left with casement windows. Buttressed right return has pent outshut.
Interior: Cast-iron roof trusses with diagonal strutting. A photograph probably taken at the opening of the garage, now in the Tourist Information Centre, shows that this Pre-World War I garage is virtually unaltered; it is a rare survival.
Listing NGR: NU0591801830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236652
- 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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