Northumberland Road, Army Riding School
Northumberland Road, Army Riding School
HER Number
6251
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Northumberland Road, Army Riding School
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Education
Site Type: Broad
School
Site Type: Specific
Riding School
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Army, riding school; now club. 1849, attributed to John Dobson, for the Northumberland Yeomanry. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Pedimented gable end to street contains 3 tall arched recesses with long keystones, the central projecting into blind stone roundel to stone-arched heads. Flat stone sills and surrounds to ground-floor windows and transomed first-floor round-headed windows, the transoms forming recessed sections of cornice. Central windows paired, with stone mullion. Source: H. Pease History of the Northumberland Yeomanry (Hussars) 1924, p.12'. LISTED GRADE 2
'Army, riding school; now club. 1849, attributed to John Dobson, for the Northumberland Yeomanry. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Pedimented gable end to street contains 3 tall arched recesses with long keystones, the central projecting into blind stone roundel to stone-arched heads. Flat stone sills and surrounds to ground-floor windows and transomed first-floor round-headed windows, the transoms forming recessed sections of cornice. Central windows paired, with stone mullion. Source: H. Pease History of the Northumberland Yeomanry (Hussars) 1924, p.12'. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425040
Northing
564750
Grid Reference
NZ425040564750
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest; 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map 1890; T. Faulkner and A. Greg, 1987, John Dobson Newcastle Architect 1787-1865, pp 88-89; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 193; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1106254