Description

NZ 26 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE RYE HILL
(east side)
Rye Hill House, Newcastle College

11/481 G.V. II

(Former Listed as Rye Hill Building of College of Arts and Technology (east part))

House, later hospital, now college. Circa 1840. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate
roof. 3 storeys, 4 windows, and 2-storey narrow end bays. Wide balustraded steps
curve in to central glazed porch with double door and wide side lights in
Tuscan pilasters under frieze with paterae. Aproned inner ground-floor sashes
have round heads with archivolts and impost strings;architraves and bracketed hoods
to end sashes and to those of first floor; bracketed sills and architraves to
second floor sashes. Narrow sashes in end bays. Second-floor band; dentilled
cornice; end bays have cornices, blocking courses and pediments with side
consoles. Low-pitched hipped roof has rear ashlar chimney. First floor wrought
iron balcony.

Listing NGR: NZ2387763804

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275621

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)