Cullercoats Radio Station, Brown's Point
Radio Station, Brown's Point, Norma Crescent
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389373
- Date first listed:
- 17-Aug-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Cullercoats Radio Station, Brown's Point
- Statutory Address:
- Radio Station, Brown's Point, Norma Crescent
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389373
- Date first listed:
- 17-Aug-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Cullercoats Radio Station, Brown's Point
- Statutory Address 1:
- Radio Station, Brown's Point, Norma Crescent
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:
- Radio Station, Brown's Point, Norma Crescent
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 36516 71616, NZ 36553 71620
Details
1022/0/10030
17-AUG-01
Cullercoats
NORMA CRESCENT (east of)
Cullercoats Radio Station, Brown's Point
GV
II
Wireless telegraphy station. 1906, by the De Forest Company for Marconi. Extended c1930 with a wireless station building for HM Coastguard. 1906 building of colourwashed brick with Welsh slate roof and cusped bargeboards. Rectangular plan. Segmental arches over two horned six/six-pane sashes to south elevation and one to north elevation, to left of later C20 door. Entry in west gable wall.
Wireless station of c1930 immediately to west. Rendered brick walls and Westmorland slate roofs with stack to rear left. Planned as two end blocks, each with a hipped almost pyramidal roof, flanking a central spine wing. Single storey. West elevation has two eight/fourteen-pane sashes in each end block, with transomed casement windows in the returns facing the central spine, which has main entrance set in hipped porch. Similar fenestration to other elevations; glazing-bar overlight over double doors in north elevation, projecting later C20 porch to south.
HISTORY: this is an exceptionally early and well-preserved example, grouping with a later and carefully-handled radio station, of a building associated with the initial development of radio telegraphy. It dates from 1906, thus marking the first phase of wireless telegraphy's major contribution towards the twentieth century's scientific-technical revolution. The early building survives in very close proximity to a larger station dating from c1930, that in its handling and sensitive use of materials - including Westmorland slate roofs - typifies the careful approach towards the architectural treatment of government-owned utility buildings of the inter-war period at its best.
Listing NGR: NZ3651671616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488031
- 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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