FORBES' BUILDINGS

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:: FORBES' BUILDINGS, LINTHORPE ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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:: FORBES' BUILDINGS, LINTHORPE ROAD

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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

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Legacy System number:: 59749
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.