Turnbull's Warehouse

TURNBULL'S WAREHOUSE, QUEENS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1325543
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Turnbull's Warehouse
Statutory Address:
TURNBULL'S WAREHOUSE, QUEENS LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1325543
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Turnbull's Warehouse
Statutory Address 1:
TURNBULL'S WAREHOUSE, QUEENS LANE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TURNBULL'S WAREHOUSE, QUEENS LANE

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 24960 63791

Details

NZ 2463 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE QUEENS LANE (west side) 23/469 Turnbull's Warehouse G.V. II Warehouse. 1888 north block; 1897 additions to south; 1898 tower. By F. W. Rich for Robinson and Co., printers. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 5 storeys at right, 6 at left, and attics; 6:2:7 bays. Near-central 2-bay tower has groups of 3 slit windows on each floor; panelled and blind-arcaded top floor; wide windows, those in left section round-headed on top floor with brick-and- stone keyed arches. Bays defined by buttresses, those of the top floors at left with ashlar bands. Sill bands. Right section and lower left windows have cambered brick arches with keys; sill bands. Cornices on second floor of left section. Top cornice all around, dentilled at left and on tower. Shaped attic gables, with central pediments, have round-headed and oeil-de boeuf windows between pilasters. High pyramidal tower roof has small octagonal spirelets, all with swept eaves, over blind oriels. Central lead-covered ogee hipped roof.

Listing NGR: NZ2496063791

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
304799
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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