22, NEWGATE STREET

22, NEWGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105679
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
22, NEWGATE STREET
Statutory Address:
22, NEWGATE STREET
Major Anderson's House, 22 Newgate Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. Roofline visible during this demolition period.
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Date:
2004-03-28
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105679
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
22, NEWGATE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
22, NEWGATE STREET

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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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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:
22, NEWGATE STREET

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

District:
Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 24698 64198

Details

NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NEWGATE STREET 20/421 (east side) No. 22 G.V. II House, now shop. Pre-1827 for Major Anderson; c.1900 shop with later alterations. Ripple-dressed sandstone ashlar with tooled margins; Welsh slate roof, brick chimney. Gothic style. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Pedimented shop fascia. Wide central bay has 3 pointed-arched cusped lights to square-headed window with label string; plainer window above with 3 lower pointed lights and dripmould. Narrow projecting side bays have cusped lancets with dripmoulds under blind cross slits and shields, that at left eroded and that at right the Anderson arms. First floor central sill string. Roll-moulded parapet coping. Hipped roof with central chimney. Historical note: this was the west boundary of the estate of the Anderson mansion in Pilgrim Street; John Dobson prepared a scheme for the development of the estate for Major Anderson. This house was described in 1827 as 'in an antique fashion'. Source: E. Mackenzie History of Newcastle Newcastle 1827; pp.174, 199, 200.

Listing NGR: NZ2469864198

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Legacy System number:
304746
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Mackenzie, E, History of Newcastle, (1827), 174 199
Mackenzie, E, History of Newcastle, (1827), 200

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of 22, NEWGATE STREET

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