56-63, THORNTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355304
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1980
List Entry Name:: 56-63, THORNTON STREET
Statutory Address:: 56-63, THORNTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355304
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1980
List Entry Name:: 56-63, THORNTON STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 56-63, THORNTON STREET

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:: 56-63, THORNTON STREET

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 24381 64024

Details

NZ 2464 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE THORNTON STREET (west side) 19/548 Nos. 56 to 63 consecutive 27.11.80 GV II Terrace of houses with shops. Early-mid C19. Local pinkish-red brick, English bond, with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 4 houses with 2 bays each. Paired doors to house and shop at each end and groups of 4 in centre. Original (shop fronts with glazing bars to 2 left shops; 2 right shops boarded up; bracketed fascia cornice. Some four-panel doors, with oblong fanlights. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars, narrower windows above doors. Eaves band and gutter cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof has 2 ridge chimneys.

Listing NGR: NZ2438164024

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Legacy System number:: 304896
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.