Newburn Almshouses
NEWBURN ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299402
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Newburn Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- NEWBURN ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299402
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Newburn Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWBURN ALMSHOUSES, HIGH 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:
- NEWBURN ALMSHOUSES, HIGH STREET
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 16865 65291
Details
NZ 16 NE NEWBURN HIGH STREET (north side) Newburn
7/34 Newburn Almshouses 7 July 1982
G.V. II
12 almshouses, 1870 by R.J. Johnson at the expense of Hugh Taylor for 6 inhabitants of Newburn, 3 of Earsdon and 3 of Shilbottle. Brick with ashlar-coped plinth, bands and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with ornamental ridge tiles and stone gable copings. One storey and attics; 3 bays to each house. 6-panelled doors and overlights in chamfered elliptical-headed surrounds in outer bays and paired to intermediate houses; elliptical heads to 2 deeply-recessed sashes with lower glazing bars; ashlar string to door lintels; sill bands to ground floor and to paired sashes under gables of second house from each end. Shaped gables on returns, on rear of first bay and above central pair of doors, the latter containing inscribed stone in scrolled frame. Roof has hipped dormers with casement windows except in gables; tall corniced and banded brick chimneys. Enamel street name at left. Iron foot scrapers on stone steps to each pair of doors.
Listing NGR: NZ1686565291
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304354
- 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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