Forbes' Buildings
FORBES' BUILDINGS, LINTHORPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312528
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Forbes' Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- FORBES' BUILDINGS, LINTHORPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312528
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Forbes' Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORBES' BUILDINGS, LINTHORPE ROAD
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:
- FORBES' BUILDINGS, LINTHORPE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 49207 19403
Details
MIDDLESBROUGH LINTHORPE ROAD, NZ 41 NE (4919) west side. 3/50 Forbes' Buildings - II Bakery with shops and offices, 1899/1900 by R. Lofthouse & Sons (Middlesbrough), for John Forbes. Now used as shopping arcade. Brick in English garden wall bond, with terracotta dressings. Late C20 concrete- tiled roofs, and glazed roof over arcades. Asymmetrical front. Mixed Classical and Gothic styles. 2-and 3-storey, 8-bay entrance front. 4th bay has round-headed vehicle entrance, with fanlight, imposts and archivolt with enriched key blocks and roundels in spandrels, under deep frieze with applied lettering: "FORBES' BUILDINGS", and cornice. Other bays have renewed late C20 shop fronts, framed by original pilasters and cornice. 3 sash windows, on upper floors of each bay, with quoin surrounds or grouped with pilasters. Venetian windows on 2nd floors of first and 6th bays and on first floor of 2nd, 5th and 7th bays. Bracketed sills and plain lintel bands. Shaped gable over each bay, with paired trefoil-headed attic windows under floating cornices in 3rd, 4th and 8th bays. Blind round-headed niches between bays. Round turret, with blind round arcading and bracketed trumpet-shaped copper roof, rises from curved left corner. Similar 2-bay right return. 10-bay left return shows similar but restrained treatment. Rebuilt late C20 service area on north-west part of site is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ4920719403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59749
- 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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