St Anne's Convent and Walls Attached

ST ANNE'S CONVENT AND WALLS ATTACHED, SUMMERHILL GROVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121147
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
St Anne's Convent and Walls Attached
Statutory Address:
ST ANNE'S CONVENT AND WALLS ATTACHED, SUMMERHILL GROVE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121147
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
St Anne's Convent and Walls Attached
Statutory Address 1:
ST ANNE'S CONVENT AND WALLS ATTACHED, SUMMERHILL GROVE

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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Location

Statutory Address:
ST ANNE'S CONVENT AND WALLS ATTACHED, SUMMERHILL GROVE

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 23920 63992

Details

NZ 26 SW and NZ 2364 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE SUMMERHILL GROVE (south side) 11/538 and 18/538 St. Anne's Convent and Walls attached GV II House, later convent. Circa 1826 by Bonomi for Cuthbert Rippon of Stanhope Castle; addition of second floor and chapel and other alterations 1878 by Dunn and Hansom for St. Anne's Convent. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roofs of Welsh slate. Irregular plan, with roughly U-shaped ranges around a small yard. Tudor style. Front to street: 2 storeys; 2 gable ends enclosing high wall; further wall at left. 4-bay range at rear of central yard; 2 boarded doors in wall, at left for pedestrians, and at left of yard for vehicles, have 2-centred arches with drip moulds. House entrance at right of yard has ledged boarded door in shouldered surround under stepped wall with stone cross finial. Irregular fenstration in left gable with square-headed stone-mullioned windows of one and 2 segment-headed lights, and gable peak with tall chimney. Right gable has 2 small rectangular chamfered lights at ground level and 6 lancets above. Roll-moulded copings to gables and walls. Rear yard range has windows similar to those in left gable in 3 bays; fourth bay an extruded staircase wing in similar style. 3 bargeboarded dormers. All chimneys stone with conjoined rounded shafts and steep coping.

Listing NGR: NZ2392063992

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Legacy System number:
304886
Legacy System:
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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.

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