Main Passenger Building of Tynemouth Old Railway Station
MAIN PASSENGER BUILDING OF TYNEMOUTH OLD RAILWAY STATION, 5 AND 6, OXFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299917
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Main Passenger Building of Tynemouth Old Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN PASSENGER BUILDING OF TYNEMOUTH OLD RAILWAY STATION, 5 AND 6, OXFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299917
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Main Passenger Building of Tynemouth Old Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN PASSENGER BUILDING OF TYNEMOUTH OLD RAILWAY STATION, 5 AND 6, OXFORD 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:
- MAIN PASSENGER BUILDING OF TYNEMOUTH OLD RAILWAY STATION, 5 AND 6, OXFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 36766 69170
Details
TYNEMOUTH OXFORD STREET (west side) NZ 3669 SE Tynemouth. 9/105 Nos. 5 and 6 (Main passenger building of Tynemouth old 9.7.79 Railway Station) G.V. II Railway station passenger building. 1846-7 by John and Benjamin Green and R. Nicholson for the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Company. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Tudor style. 2 storeys, 3 wide bays: and right wing of one storey, 3 bays. Projecting gabled centre bay has buttressed portico to 3-light window flanked by half-glazed double doors. Carved arms of Newcastle in spandrels of portico. Oriel window in gable peak. 3-light ground-floor windows in outer bays under corbelled-out gabled oriel half-dormers. 2-light windows in right wing. All windows stone-mullioned and boarded up. Sloped gable copings on curved kneelers; ball finials to principal gables. Ashlar chimneys, that at left truncated; ridge ventilator to wing. Historical note: Newcastle and North Shields Railway Company of 1835, with terminus in North Shields, amalgamated in 1845 with Newcastle and Berwick Company. Source: H.E. Craster History of Northumberland vol. VIII p. 355. Empty and derelict at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ3676669170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303351
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Craster, H H E, A History of Northumberland in The Parish Of Tynemouth, Vol. 8, (1907), 355
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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