PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AT SOUTH END OF APPROACH SPAN TO NEW TYNE BRIDGE

PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AT SOUTH END OF APPROACH SPAN TO NEW TYNE BRIDGE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277869
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1981
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AT SOUTH END OF APPROACH SPAN TO NEW TYNE BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AT SOUTH END OF APPROACH SPAN TO NEW TYNE BRIDGE, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277869
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1981
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AT SOUTH END OF APPROACH SPAN TO NEW TYNE BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AT SOUTH END OF APPROACH SPAN TO NEW TYNE BRIDGE, CHURCH STREET

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 CONVENIENCE AT SOUTH END OF APPROACH SPAN TO NEW TYNE BRIDGE, CHURCH 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 25473 63559

Details

In the entry for CHURCH STREET 5/64 (south end, west side)

Public convenience at south end of approach span to New Tyne bridge

In part 2 of the entry the first sentence should be amended to read "Circa 1928 by Arthur Bashforth ARIBA, architect of Gateshead Borough Engineer's Department.

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1. CHURCH STREET 5099 (south end, west side)

NZ 2563 5/64 Public convenience at south end of approach II span to New Tyne Bridge

2. Circa 1928 probably by R Burns Dick. Elegant little building of incised concrete standing on broader rusticated plinth which supports wrought iron handrails and contains staircases. Square on plan, with chamfered rebated angles. Inset frieze, cornice band and blocking course slightly pediment-shaped on each face. Four moulded round-arched openings. Doors on east and west faces have fish-scale iron fanlight grilles, windows on other faces have radial metal glazing. Oak panelled double doors, borough arms over. Ground floor interior oak panelled. Shallow central glass dome. Lavatories in plinth plain tiled.

Listing NGR: NZ2547363559

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Legacy System number:: 430195
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.