PUBLIC LAVATORY, OUTBUILDING AND ENCLOSING WALLS, TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE

PUBLIC LAVATORY, OUTBUILDING AND ENCLOSING WALLS, TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE, LINKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276282
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC LAVATORY, OUTBUILDING AND ENCLOSING WALLS, TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PUBLIC LAVATORY, OUTBUILDING AND ENCLOSING WALLS, TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE, LINKS ROAD

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Date:: 2001-05-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276282
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC LAVATORY, OUTBUILDING AND ENCLOSING WALLS, TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PUBLIC LAVATORY, OUTBUILDING AND ENCLOSING WALLS, TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE, LINKS ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PUBLIC LAVATORY, OUTBUILDING AND ENCLOSING WALLS, TO EAST OF LINK HOUSE, LINKS ROAD

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Blyth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 32013 79680

Details

BLYTH LINKS ROAD NZ 37 NW (EAST SIDE) 5/122 Public lavatory, out-building and enclosing walls, to east of Link House GV II Engine house for Defence Electric Light installation, 1914-19, now public convenience. Brick in English Bond with concrete dressings and reinforced concrete roof. Rectangular building in sunk walled enclosure with outbuilding to north. Single storey, 6 bays: projecting porch at left end (now inscribed 'LADIES'), 4 windows, reduced in size, with stop-chamfered lintels; Gents' doorway on right return is later insertion. Slightly-pitched roof with overhanging eaves. Enclosing wall with pitched coping, extended to north-west to flank curving approach; end piers with pyramidal caps; flight of steps at south-west corner. Embayment in north wall, with later concrete roof, housed cooling tanks; embayment on east with bases for petrol and oil tanks. The building housed 2 dynamos with Crossley engines, powering the defence electric light emplacements (q.v.) 50 metres to the east. As part of a World War 1 D.E.L. installation it is a rare survival.

Listing NGR: NZ3201379680

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.