ROMAN TURRET OPPOSITE NUMBER 800, BISHOPS HOUSE (DENTON HALL) WITH SECTION OF HADRIAN'S WALL

ROMAN TURRET OPPOSITE NUMBER 800, BISHOPS HOUSE (DENTON HALL) WITH SECTION OF HADRIAN'S WALL, WEST ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1355307
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: ROMAN TURRET OPPOSITE NUMBER 800, BISHOPS HOUSE (DENTON HALL) WITH SECTION OF HADRIAN'S WALL
Statutory Address:: ROMAN TURRET OPPOSITE NUMBER 800, BISHOPS HOUSE (DENTON HALL) WITH SECTION OF HADRIAN'S WALL, WEST ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1355307
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: ROMAN TURRET OPPOSITE NUMBER 800, BISHOPS HOUSE (DENTON HALL) WITH SECTION OF HADRIAN'S WALL
Statutory Address 1:: ROMAN TURRET OPPOSITE NUMBER 800, BISHOPS HOUSE (DENTON HALL) WITH SECTION OF HADRIAN'S WALL, WEST ROAD

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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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Statutory Address:: ROMAN TURRET OPPOSITE NUMBER 800, BISHOPS HOUSE (DENTON HALL) WITH SECTION OF HADRIAN'S WALL, WEST ROAD

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District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 19857 65549

Details

NZ 16 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE WEST ROAD (south side) 7/563 17.12.71 Roman Turret opposite No. 800, Bishops House (Denton Hall) with section of Hadrian's Wall I Wall turret 7b. Circa 122 A.D, Sandstone. Square turret built into the Roman Wall; doorway on south. Up to 6 courses high. Internal platform in south-east corner. Wall attached is of 'broad wall' type. Source: E.B. Birley 'Excavations on Hadrian's Wall West of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929' in Archaeologia Aeliana S VII, 145-152 and illustration. A scheduled ancient monument.

Listing NGR: NZ1987065676

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'Archaeologia Aeliana' in Archaeologia Aeliana, , Vol. 7, (), 142-152

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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.