The Grove (Church Army Home For the Elderly)
THE GROVE (CHURCH ARMY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY), ELVASTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185209
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Grove (Church Army Home For the Elderly)
- Statutory Address:
- THE GROVE (CHURCH ARMY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY), ELVASTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185209
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Grove (Church Army Home For the Elderly)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GROVE (CHURCH ARMY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY), ELVASTON ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GROVE (CHURCH ARMY HOME FOR THE ELDERLY), ELVASTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 15361 64764
Details
NZ 1564 NW RYTON ELVASTON ROAD (north side) 15/88 Ryton
21.1.49 The Grove (Church Army Home for the Elderly) (Formerly listed as Ryton Grove)
G.V. II
Large house; now old peoples' home. Dated 1742 on rainwater heads; early C20 additions of round bows on returns. Brick with sandstone ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins; graduated Westmorland slate roof with 2 tall corniced brick chimneys. 2 storeys and attics, 5 windows x 5. Partly-glazed door, under ornamental fanlight in Tuscan doorcase with fluted necking and open pediment, in 2-storey central half-octagonal projection with windows above door and in canted returns; one window either side. All windows sashes with glazing bars, projecting stone sills and splayed stone lintels with false voussoirs. Round bows in returns have flat stone lintels of similar style. First floor string;dentilled eaves cornice. 3 later pedimented dormers in low-pitched hipped.roof; blocking course to all projecting bays. 2-storey decorative cast iron loggia on right return. Interior shows stair, in centre of hall, with turned balusters and ramped handrail; some stucco decoration to ceilings and cornices.
Listing NGR: NZ1536164764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303853
- 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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