17, 19, 21 and 23, Gideon Walk

17, 19, 21 and 23, Gideon Walk, Jameson Manor, NE20 0FT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1042691
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: 17, 19, 21 and 23, Gideon Walk
Statutory Address:: 17, 19, 21 and 23, Gideon Walk, Jameson Manor, NE20 0FT

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Date:: 1999-10-31
Reference:: IOE01/01289/15
Rights:: © Mr Brian Pearson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1042691
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: 17, 19, 21 and 23, Gideon Walk
Statutory Address 1:: 17, 19, 21 and 23, Gideon Walk, Jameson Manor, NE20 0FT

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 17, 19, 21 and 23, Gideon Walk, Jameson Manor, NE20 0FT

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ponteland
National Grid Reference:: NZ 15510 74105

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 May 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards

NZ 17 SE 17/346

PONTELAND JAMESON MANOR GIDEON WALK No 17, 19, 21 and 23

(Formerly listed as NORTHUMBRIA POLICE H.Q. Blocks 9-10 and 11-12)

GV II

Cottage homes for children. 1903 by Leeson for the Newcastle Board of Guardians. Later Police Headquarters and college.

Cavity walls in stretcher-bond brick, partly pebbledashed and painted. Welsh slate roofs. Two pairs of semi-detached houses in Domestic Revival style. Consciously asymmetrical.

Former Block 9-10: Two storeys, six bays. Doorway to No. 9 has cornice over; No. 10 has semicircular hood. No. 9 has a canted bay window; No, 10 a bay window. Two- and three-light windows in moulded wood surrounds. Cross gables over first and third bays; bay four has gabled half-dormer; bays five and six under one large cross gable. Hipped roof with three brick-corniced stacks.

Former Block 11-12: Nine bays. Doorways with semicircular hoods on brackets; No. 11 has a large bay window over; No. 12 has a round-headed window. Centre two bays have tripartite windows in moulded wood surrounds; semicircular pediments over first floor windows. To left, three bays with 12-pane sashes and first floor dentilled string. To right canted bay window. Over centre bays two Flemish gables. Roof hipped on left with octagonal lateral shaft; gabled on right with end stack.

A good example of buildings for the enlightened approach to child care in the early C20.

Listing NGR: NZ1551074105

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Legacy System number:: 238840
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.