1-5, ELLISON PLACE
1-5, ELLISON PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320379
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1-5, ELLISON PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5, ELLISON PLACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320379
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1-5, ELLISON PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5, ELLISON PLACE
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:
- 1-5, ELLISON PLACE
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 25146 64699
Details
NZ 2564 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ELLISON PLACE
(north side)
17/224 Nos. 1-5 consecutive
G.V. II
Terrace of houses, in use as Polytechnic buildings, offices and a surgery at the time of listing. Circa 1810. English bond brick with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roofs. 5 houses of 3 storeys and attics, from 5 to 3 bays. Nos. one and 2 have central ashlar porches an classical style, that to No. one having arch, pilasters and cornice and blocking course; No.2 has pilasters and open segmental pediment with cornice and blocking course 6-panelled doors, double in porches, under fanlights; doorcases to Nos. 3 and 4 have fluted necking and dentilled pediments; doorcase removed from No. 5. Renewed sashes with wedge stone lintels; projecting stone sills to second floor, sill bands to ground and first floors. Porch of No.1 has plaque inscribed 'Matthew White Esq., Mayor/Joseph Atkinson Esq., Sheriffe/1692. Interior of No.1 has Venetian stair landing window in Ionic case with arms of Newcastle in glass. Historical note: No. one was the Mansion House of Newcastle in the C19. No. 5 was the home of William Boutland Wilkinson, an early patentee of reinforced concrete in the modern sense. Sources: J.M. Brown Transactions of the Newcomen Society XXXIX; W.F. Cassie 'Early Reinforced Concrete in Newcastle upon Tyne' Structural Engineer April 1955.
Listing NGR: NZ2514664699
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304535
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Newcomen Society in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 39, ()
Sructural Engineer in April, (1955)
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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