10, THE AVENUE

10, THE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155225
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
10, THE AVENUE
Statutory Address:
10, THE AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155225
Date first listed:
15-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
10, THE AVENUE
Statutory Address 1:
10, THE AVENUE

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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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:
10, THE AVENUE

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Newton-on-the-Moor and Swarland
National Grid Reference:
NU 16348 03559

Details

NEWTON-ON-THE-MOOR THE AVENUE NU 10 SE (West side) Swarland 6/174 No. 10 II

Bungalow, 1936 by M.P. Reavell for the Fountains Abbey Settlers Society. Brick, rendered and whitewashed; pantile roof. L-plan. 3 bays. Central renewed part-glazed door with 12-pane sash and 2 small windows to right; projecting left bay shows 12-pane sash under gable with plain bargeboards. Ridge stack on each part of roof. Left return shows 12-pane sash and gable with plain bargeboards; right return shows doorway and small window under similar gable. 3-bay rear elevation shows 12-pane sashes, paired at left end.

Listed for historical interest. The Fountains Abbey Settlers Society was established in 1934 by Commander Clare Vyner to provide a rural settlement for unemployed craftsmen from Tyneside. 77 houses were built, mostly with attached lX acre plots and tenanted by families from Gateshead and elsewhere. The scheme was not a total success, many tenants soon returning to Tyneside.

Listing NGR: NU1634803559

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
236843
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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