Fleming Memorial Hospital
FLEMING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BURDON TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242077
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fleming Memorial Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- FLEMING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BURDON TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242077
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fleming Memorial Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLEMING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BURDON TERRACE
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:
- FLEMING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BURDON TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 24976 65872
Details
The following shall be added to the list:- NZ 26 NW and NZ 26 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BURDON TERRACE (north side) 8/611 and 9/611 Fleming Memorial Hospital II Hospital for sick children. 1887 by John Quilter and George Wheelhouse, for John Fleming. Red brick (in Flemish Coud) with sandstone ashlar dressings; lakeland slate roof with lead cupolas. Jacobean style. Symmetrical front of 2 and 3 storeys, 15 bays. Plinth, quoins, frieze and cornice above each floor, coped parapets. Projecting 5-bay central section has frontispiece of 3 full storeys. Glazed double doors and fanlight, in pilasters and enriched archivolt, framed by paired, half fluted pilasters and entablative, with carved spandrels, the centre section of an ashlar 2-storey canted bay. Similar pilasters on first floor support segmental pediment, with armorial cariving, and balustraded parapet. Carved name panel below central windows; windows in side sections. Flanking 2-storey bay have angle canted back to 3-storey outer bays under shaped gables with oculi and bands. Symmetrical 5-bay outer sections have central wider windows with scrolled feet and balustraded balconies on first floor, segmental pediments above. projecting chimney breast between each pair of outer bays. All windows stone mullioned and transomed (except for first floor centre and second floor in gabled bays, altered) in quoined surrounds. Pyramidal roof over centre bay has terracotta finial and tall flanking chimneys. All chimneys corniced and quoined. Central on ridge of outer sections are Small cupolas with lead bases, arcaded downs and wrought iron finials. Similar treatment on returns. Interior: main staircase with elaborate cast iron balustrade and domed rooflight; original panelling in hall and stairway. Doorway pilasters rest on 2 dated foundation stones, 1 laid by Lady Armstrong, with names of professionals, the other recording the eponymous benefactor's gift "in the Jubilee year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in memory of Mary his loving wife who died 7th March 1882." (Later C20 insertion on right return is not not of interest)
Listing NGR: NZ2497665872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441443
- 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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