1-15 Walker Terrace
1-15 WALKER TERRACE, BENSHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277835
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 1-15 Walker Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- 1-15 WALKER TERRACE, BENSHAM ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/01221/23
- Rights:
- © D.S Ridley. Source: Historic England Archive
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277835
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 1-15 Walker Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-15 WALKER TERRACE, BENSHAM 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:
- 1-15 WALKER TERRACE, BENSHAM 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 25380 62985
Details
1.
5099
NZ 2563 NZ 2562
5 & 7/27
26.4.50
BENSHAM ROAD
(south side)
Nos 1, 3, 5 and 7
No 9
26.4.50 No 11
30.7.69 No 13
26.4.50 No 15
(Walker Terrace)
II*
2.
Early C19. Substantial terrace of local pinkish brick with stone dressings, Welsh
slate roofs, brick chimneys with stone cornices. Two storeys, each five bays
except the end houses, of two bays with three-bay returns holding doors. Brick
pilaster bay divisions have stone capitals. Stone plinth, frieze, eaves cornice,
lintels and cills; and architraves to ground floor windows and to all windows on
ends. Sashes with glazing bars. Four-panel doors with oblong fanlights; Doric
doorcases on ends, architraves elsewhere. Stone forecourt wall with moulded coping,
square gate piers, and an interrupted flight of stone steps to each house. Some
interiors retain pleasing decorative plaster cornices, especially in hall and
staircase areas.
Listing NGR: NZ2538062985
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430184
- 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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