Armstrong House
ARMSTRONG HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232749
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Armstrong House
- Statutory Address:
- ARMSTRONG HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232749
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Armstrong House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARMSTRONG HOUSE, FRONT 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.
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:
- ARMSTRONG HOUSE, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bamburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 18172 34890
Details
BAMBURGH FRONT STREET NU 1834 (South side, off) 18/51 Armstrong House GV II Rest home, built for workers in Armstrong's Tyneside factories. Designed 1914 by Ernest J. Hart of Bamburgh and George Reavel of Alnwick, but actually built 1925, to a slightly modified design for Lord Armstrong. Ashlar and pebbledash with red-tiled roof. Arts and Crafts style. 4 irregular ranges round a courtyard. 2 storeys. Entrance side Central section: ashlar on ground floor, pebbledash above. 3 uneven bays on ground floor. Off-centre recessed porch has round arch with round responds and moulded arch set in moulded square surround. To left a 5-light mullioned-and-transomed window with leaded casements. Similar one-light window to right. On 1st floor 3 regularly spaced 3-light wooden casements. Flanking one-bay, projecting cross-gabled sections are ashlar on both floors with mullioned and mullioned-and-transomed windows. Bay to right projects further and a corniced chimney with a pronounced batter rises from the right corner. Outer bays have one-light windows on ground floor and one blank above. Irregular gabled roofs with swept eaves and corniced ridge and end stacks.
Listing NGR: NU1817134896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408152
- 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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