KING GEORGE VI BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR AGRICULTURE AND THE CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING

KING GEORGE VI BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR AGRICULTURE AND THE CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING, QUEEN VICTORIA ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380579
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: KING GEORGE VI BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR AGRICULTURE AND THE CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
Statutory Address:: KING GEORGE VI BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR AGRICULTURE AND THE CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING, QUEEN VICTORIA ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380579
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-2000
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Sep-2000
List Entry Name:: KING GEORGE VI BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR AGRICULTURE AND THE CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
Statutory Address 1:: KING GEORGE VI BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR AGRICULTURE AND THE CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING, QUEEN VICTORIA ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: KING GEORGE VI BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR AGRICULTURE AND THE CENTRE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING, QUEEN VICTORIA 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 24580 64910

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ 2465 SE QUEEN VICTORIA ROAD 1833/14/10101 (East side) 19-JUN-00 KING GEORGE VI BUILDING; DEPARTMENT FO R AGRICULTURE AND THE CENTRE FOR LIFEL ONG LEARNING

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Also Known As: KING GEORGE VI BUILDING, KING'S ROAD

Medical School, now Department for Agriculture and the Centre for Lifelong Learning. 1936-39 with internal alterations 1948, and attic storey added 1955-57. Designed by P Clive Newcombe and largely paid for by Sir Arthur Munro Sutherland. Steel-framed with flat concrete roofs, clad in red brick with ashlar dressings. 3 storey and 4 storey on basement. Three tall blocks linked by lower buildings with staircases and lecture theatres. West front to Queen Victoria Road has central 9 window 4 storey block with slightly projecting 3 window centre with short Doric pilasters in antis, and above giant Corinthian pilasters in antis, topped with ashlar parapet, and either side 3 windows in vertical strips with ashlar panels between. Attic floor added. Either end slightly lower 7 window blocks with projecting 3 window centres with ashlar panels between, to the sides 2 windows in similar vertical strips. Set back to right main entrance has projecting ashlar porch with single fluted Doric columns in antis and moulded ashlar door surround with main revolving door and overlight with glazing bars. St Thomas Street front 2 storey plus attic arranged 4.4.5.4.4. Central section has 3 windows in ashlar panel with 3 attic windows above, set back either side are 4 window sections set in vertical ashlar panels, with similar 4 window sections set back at either side. East King's Road facade similar to west facade but with plainer centre. INTERIOR entrance hall and Howden Room both have good quality imitation seventeenth century panelling and decorative plaster ceilings.

Listing NGR: NZ2458064910

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 480886
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.