Town Hall, Ancillary Buildings and Former Police Station to Rear
TOWN HALL, ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AND FORMER POLICE STATION TO REAR, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277845
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall, Ancillary Buildings and Former Police Station to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AND FORMER POLICE STATION TO REAR, WEST STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277845
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Town Hall, Ancillary Buildings and Former Police Station to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN HALL, ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AND FORMER POLICE STATION TO REAR, WEST 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:
- TOWN HALL, ANCILLARY BUILDINGS AND FORMER POLICE STATION TO REAR, WEST STREET
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 25470 63377
Details
1. WEST STREET 5099 (east side)
NZ 2563 5/118 Town Hall, ancillary buildings and former II Police Station to rear
2. 1868-70 by John Johnstone. Ashlar, Welsh slate roof. Substantial composition in neo-Romanesque style with errant details. Two storeys, two, three and two bays. Central block taller and projecting, with bays framed in pilasters supporting heavy entablature with ornamental frieze and modillion cornice. Balustraded balcony over has corner pedestals with urns (some missing) central segmental pediment with allegorical figures and plinth with larger figure above. Side sections have lower, hip ended roofs and simpler entablatures also resting on pilasters. Paired round arched first floor windows, those in centre in round arched recesses with oculi in heads. Ground floor paired segmental headed windows, banded pilasters and rusticated plinth.
Round-arched central entrance with nook shafts and mouldings. Set back outer entrance bays have similar doorways, the northern one up a lone flight of steps as the hill slopes down.
North return has four bays of this building in similar style but with a full basement storey. Then a mid C19 Italianate ashlar building of two storeys, six bays, the left bay being a four-storey square tower with a second-floor corbel table and deeply overhanging eaves, a pyramidal roof and eccentrically placed stone chimneys.
Beyond this a later two-storey, three-window ashlar building of simple character. South return shows long rear part of rubble with round first floor windows in raised surrounds. This seems to be a much earlier building, possibly late C18, which was adapted and incorporated into the Town Hall complex.
Listing NGR: NZ2547063377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430255
- 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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