Reading Room the Cottage
READING ROOM, NEWTON VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303322
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room the Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- READING ROOM, NEWTON VILLAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303322
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room the Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- READING ROOM, NEWTON VILLAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE COTTAGE, NEWTON VILLAGE
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:
- READING ROOM, NEWTON VILLAGE
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, NEWTON VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton-on-the-Moor and Swarland
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 17068 05334
Details
NEWTON-ON-THE-MOOR NEWTON VILLAGE NU 10 NE (North side) 2/196 Reading Room and The Cottage
GV II
Early C18 house converted to reading room 1887. Squared stone; pantile roof except for Welsh slates on rear outshut. Single storey (upper floor removed 1887) 5 bays, slightly irregular. Centre flush-panelled door under gabled hood on moulded brackets. 12-pane sash windows with former first-floor band above. Coped gables on moulded kneelers; corniced end stacks, probably re-set. Interior: Reading Room in west part is a good early C18 panelled room with dado rail, cornice, panelled and fluted pilasters flanking fireplace with corniced overmantel, and 2-panel door in bolection-moulded surround with pulvinated frieze. To right of fireplace is a shell-headed cupboard with shaped shelves. Panelled round arch, with imposts and fluted key block, from entrance passage to outshut (former stair position). The part east of the entrance passage is now used as bedrooms for The Cottage, the adjacent single-storeyed dwelling which is otherwise not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NU1706805334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236865
- 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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