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Latitude: 54.9805 / 54°58'49"N
Longitude: -1.6131 / 1°36'47"W
OS Eastings: 424857
OS Northings: 565169
OS Grid: NZ248651
Mapcode National: GBR SPB.0N
Mapcode Global: WHC3R.623P
Plus Code: 9C6WX9JP+6P
Entry Name: Hancock Museum of Natural History
Listing Date: 17 December 1971
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1024951
English Heritage Legacy ID: 304384
ID on this website: 101024951
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE2
County: Newcastle upon Tyne
Electoral Ward/Division: Westgate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Newcastle upon Tyne
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Newcastle St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Museum Museum building
NZ 2465 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BARRAS BRIDGE
14/83 Hancock Museum of Natural
History.
17.12.71
G.V. II*
Museum.1878 by John Wardle for the Newcastle Natural History Society. Sandstone
ashlar with plinth;roof not visible. Greek Revival style. 2 storeys, 4:1:5:1:4
bays. One-bay projections flank wide stone steps up to terrace with 5 double
doors and overlights. Plain stone reveals to doors and to wood mullioned-and-
transomed windows in end bays and on first floor; ground floor of projections
has blind panels. Square Doric attached columns define sections. Entablature
and parapet with raised panels over projecting wings and over central low
relief THE HANCOCK MUSEUM on fascia. Square piers flanking lowest steps have
cast iron urn-shaped supports to square gas lamps, now disused.
Listing NGR: NZ2485765169
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