AKENSIDE HOUSE

AKENSIDE HOUSE, 5, AKENSIDE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355206
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: AKENSIDE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: AKENSIDE HOUSE, 5, AKENSIDE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355206
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: AKENSIDE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: AKENSIDE HOUSE, 5, AKENSIDE HILL

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:: AKENSIDE HOUSE, 5, AKENSIDE HILL

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 25191 63934

Details

NX 2563 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AKENSIDE HILL

24/72 No. 5. (Akenside House)

G.V. II

Offices. Dated 1902. Polished dark granite ground floor; sandstone ashlar above. Dark slate roof with copper dome. 5 storeys and attics. Deeply-projecting eaves cornice. End bays have rusticated pilasters and shallow canted 3-storey bay windows. Centre 5 bays form a shallow bow. First-floor horizontally rusticated with carved date panel above centre window. Second floor has pediments over 3 central windows with elaborate keystones. 2 cartouches surrounded by wreaths, fasces, swags and other ornament between third and fourth floors. Prominent eaves cornice to central 5 bays flanked by oeuil-de-boeuf windows with cornices over and consoles either side. Mansard roof has central octagonal lantern with copper dome.

Listing NGR: NZ2519163934

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Legacy System number:: 304370
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.