BLOCKS 5-6 AND 7-8

BLOCKS 5-6 AND 7-8, NORTHUMBRIA POLICE HQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370740
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: BLOCKS 5-6 AND 7-8
Statutory Address:: BLOCKS 5-6 AND 7-8, NORTHUMBRIA POLICE HQ

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Date:: 1999-10-31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370740
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: BLOCKS 5-6 AND 7-8
Statutory Address 1:: BLOCKS 5-6 AND 7-8, NORTHUMBRIA POLICE HQ

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:: BLOCKS 5-6 AND 7-8, NORTHUMBRIA POLICE HQ

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ponteland
National Grid Reference:: NZ 15435 74074

Details

PONTELAND NORTHUMBRIA POLICE H.Q. NZ 17 SE Blocks 5-6 and 7-8 17/345 GV II

Cottage homes for children. 1903 by Leeson for the Newcastle Board of Guardians. Now Police Headquarters and college. Cavity walls in stretcher bond brick; partly pebbledashed and painted. Welsh slate roofs. Two pairs of semi-detached houses in Domestic Revival style.

Block 5-6. Consciously asymmetrical facade. 2 storeys, 6 bays. No. 5 has door with cornice and 2-light window above under gable; canted bay window to left. No. 6 has door with segmental head and canted bay window over; bay window to right. Hipped roof with 4 gables of varying sizes; and over right bay a large Flemish gable. 3 corniced stacks. Recent extension to right is not of special interest

Block 7-8: almost symmetrical; only the doors break the symmetry. Door to No. 7 is in a 2-storey porch while door to No. 8 has a canted oriel over. Single- storey bay windows in outer bays. 2- and 3-light windows in moulded wood frames. Bargeboarded cross gables over outer bays and similar smaller gables over centre bays. Hipped roof with 3 corniced stacks.

Listing NGR: NZ1543574074

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Legacy System number:: 238839
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.