Sutherland Building
SUTHERLAND BUILDING, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355259
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sutherland Building
- Statutory Address:
- SUTHERLAND BUILDING, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355259
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sutherland Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUTHERLAND BUILDING, NORTHUMBERLAND 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:
- SUTHERLAND BUILDING, NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD
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 25118 64786
Details
NZ 2564 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NORTHUMBERLAND ROAD
(south side)
17/429 Sutherland Building
G.V. II
Medical college, later dental hospital and school, in use as a Polytechnic building at the time of listing. Foundation stone dated 1887; completed 1895. By Dunn, Hansom and Dunn. Dark red brick and terracotta with ashlar-coped plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs at rear. U-plan; Tudor style. 2 storeys, 5:1:4:1 bays with central 3-stage tower and right end canted bay. [flower has open arch to stone porch with benches, niches, and panelled barrel-vault. Bracketed 2-storey oriel above with terracotta ornament. Mullioned-and-transomed windows have central semicircle and round-headed lights; similar glazing to other windows of intermediate bays, with blank tipper left section; canted right end bay. Sill and floor strings; gargoyles and battlemented parapets over end bays and tower; corbel table to intermediate sections. High-pitched roof over bays to right of tower. Historical note: founded as University of Durham College of Medicine.
Listing NGR: NZ2511864786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304758
- 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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