BLOCKS 1-2 AND 3-4
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1157176
Date first listed: 22-Aug-1986
Statutory Address: BLOCKS 1-2 AND 3-4, NORTHUMBRIA POLICE HQ
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Location
Statutory Address: BLOCKS 1-2 AND 3-4, NORTHUMBRIA POLICE HQ
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 15375 74026
Summary
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History
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Details
PONTELAND NORTHUMBRIA POLICE H.Q.
NZ 17 SE
Blocks 1-2 and 3-4
17/344
GV II
Cottage homes for children. 1903 by Leeson for the Newcastle Board of Guardians.
Now 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.
Block 1-2: Consciously asymmetrical facade with one gable to left and 2 to
right. 2 storeys, 6 bays. Half-glazed doors in 2nd and 5th bays. Ipswich
windows in outer bays, those on 1st floor in half-dormers with semicircular
pediments. Half-timbered gables with bargeboards. Hipped roof with 3 boarded
ridge stacks.
Block 3-4: also asymmetric 6-bay facade with similar doors. 2-storey, 5-sided
bay window under pedimented gable in 4th bay. Hipped roof with half-hipped
transverse roofs over outer bays. 3 corniced stacks.
A good example of buildings for the enlightened approach to child care in the
early C20.
Listing NGR: NZ1537574026
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 238838
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.
End of official listing