Description

NZ 26 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ELSWICK ROAD
(south side)
11/227 Nos. 97-101 (odd)
(Ashfield Parents Centre
and Ashfield Nursery
School and walls, gate
piers and gate attached.
G.V. II
Ashfield House; c.1830 for Richardson, tanner; now in educational use. Sandstone
ashlar; dark slate roofs, graduated over main block. U-plan with wings running
forward to enclose garden. 2 storeys; main block 3 bays; central projecting
enclosed Tuscan porch with 4 pilasters has 6-panelled door with overlight and
narrow side lights; cornice and blocking course. Renewed glazing to tripartite
window above in plain reveal with projecting stone sill; similar single windows in
side bays. Eaves band, gutter cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof with no chimneys
visible. Slightly lower wings have 3 similar windows on inner returns, some blind;
end walls, to street have 4-panelled doors, that to No. 101 at right renewed, and
one window each floor. Quadrant walls enclosing garden have ramped flat coping;
2 tall square gate piers, Gothic-panelled, have overlapping pyramidal coping.
Wrought iron gate with dog bars.

Listing NGR: NZ2339863892

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275743

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)