New High Light and House Attached

NEW HIGH LIGHT AND HOUSE ATTACHED, TYNE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185198
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
New High Light and House Attached
Statutory Address:
NEW HIGH LIGHT AND HOUSE ATTACHED, TYNE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185198
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
New High Light and House Attached
Statutory Address 1:
NEW HIGH LIGHT AND HOUSE ATTACHED, TYNE STREET

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:
NEW HIGH LIGHT AND HOUSE ATTACHED, TYNE STREET

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

District:
North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 36055 68382

Details

TYNEMOUTH TYNE STREET (south side) NZ 3668 SW North Shields. 15/127 New High Light and house attached. G.V. II Lighthouse and house. Lighthouse dated 1808 on north elevation and on rainwater head; house 1860. Lighthouse by John Stokoe, for Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne. Painted ashlar and brick; iron balustrade and lead roof to lighthouse and Welsh slate roof, with flat stone gable coping, to house. Lighthouse 4 storeys and lantern stage, one bay. Ground-floor projection holds blocked Venetian window under string; pedimented chambranle projection above. Blocked windows with classical treatment on first and second floors; round-arched top window under pediment. Cornice and iron balustrade with urn cover finials. Set-back lantern stage has blind window and round-hipped roof with central corniced stack. House adjoining at right: 2 storeys, 2 bays. Bricked-up overlight to hardboard-covered door at left; wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to blocked-up windows. Plaque above door, commemorating rebuilding in 1860, bears arms of Trinity House, Newcastle.

Listing NGR: NZ3605568382

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
303375
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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