Fine Art Department
FINE ART DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355305
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fine Art Department
- Statutory Address:
- FINE ART DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355305
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fine Art Department
- Statutory Address 1:
- FINE ART DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
- Statutory Address 2:
- FINE ART DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
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:
- FINE ART DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
- Statutory Address:
- FINE ART DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE
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 24740 65071
Details
NZ 2465 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE (east and south sides) 14/555 Fine Art Department GV II College of art. 1911 by W.H. Knowles for Armstrong College. Dark red brick with ashlar dressings; roof of plain tiles. Tudor style. L-plan. Basement and one storey with one further storey set back; right return breaking forward has basement and 2 storeys. 3 irregular bays and 3 in return. Steps up to doorcase at right, of paired Ionic columns and open segmental pediment with Royal Arms; double door and fanlight with glazing bars. 2-light cusped windows flank door; similar-style canted bay at left end. Battlemented parapet to ground floor; gabled bay, above and set back from entrance, has stone mullioned-and-transomed windows under drip mould. Steeply-pitched roof has octagonal lantern with ogee dome and tall spike finial. Ornamented rainwater heads. Wing breaking forward at right has stone mullioned-and- transomed windows, octagonal stair turret with hipped roof and terra cotta ball finial.
Listing NGR: NZ2474065071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304904
- 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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