DUKES COTTAGES AND WALL IN FRONT

DUKES COTTAGES AND WALL IN FRONT, 1-4, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1354996
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: DUKES COTTAGES AND WALL IN FRONT
Statutory Address:: DUKES COTTAGES AND WALL IN FRONT, 1-4, FRONT STREET

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Date:: 1999-08-23
Reference:: IOE01/01033/02
Rights:: © Mrs J.H. Black. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1354996
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: DUKES COTTAGES AND WALL IN FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: DUKES COTTAGES AND WALL IN FRONT, 1-4, FRONT STREET

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:: DUKES COTTAGES AND WALL IN FRONT, 1-4, FRONT STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 30015 72263

Details

SEATON VALLEY (part) FRONT STREET (south side) NZ 27 SE and NZ 37 SW Backworth. 3/23 and 4/23 Nos 1 - 4 (Duke's Cottages) and wall in front. G.V. II 6 estate houses, now 4 dwellings. Circa 1840 for Duke of Northumberland. Restored 1980 by J.& D. Darbishire for Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; some rubble in ground floor between each pair of houses; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. One storey and attic; yard entrance bay; 2 bays to each house. Boarded doors in stop-chamfered surrounds in outer bays and paired between inner houses. Splayed surrounds and steeply-sloping sills to stone-mullioned casement windows in remaining bays, and to gabled half- dormers; sash window in gabled dormer over vehicle entrance. 3 ridge chimney stacks with conjoined shafts; Area wall of rubble sandstone has roughly dressed round stone coping.

Listing NGR: NZ3001572263

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Legacy System number:: 303267
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.