NOS. 2, 2A, 4 AND ZETLAND BUILDINGS

NOS. 2, 2A, 4 AND ZETLAND BUILDINGS, EXCHANGE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1139842
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: NOS. 2, 2A, 4 AND ZETLAND BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: NOS. 2, 2A, 4 AND ZETLAND BUILDINGS, EXCHANGE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1139842
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: NOS. 2, 2A, 4 AND ZETLAND BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NOS. 2, 2A, 4 AND ZETLAND BUILDINGS, EXCHANGE SQUARE

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:: NOS. 2, 2A, 4 AND ZETLAND BUILDINGS, EXCHANGE SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 49684 20647

Details

MIDDLESBROUGH EXCHANGE SQUARE, NZ 4920 NE north side. 8/31 Nos. 2, 2A, 4 and Zetland Buildings. G.V. II Wrongly shown on O.S. plan as Marton Road. Including Zetland Buildings and right extension, Zetland Place. Offices, c.1872, in 3 builds, by W.H. Blessley (Middlesbrough). Slightly later extension to Zetland Buildings. Brick with stone and polychrome brick dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Concave-curved terrace with right end convex-curved into Zetland Place. Italianate. 3 storeys, 23 bays. Renewed doors in 3rd, 10th, 11th, 16th and 23rd bays. Segmental-arcaded ground floor with impost bands, hoodmoulds and moulded plinth. Slightly-recessed windows with segmental heads, corbelled sills and renewed glazing. Richly-carved imposts in bays 1 to 10 and doorway in 16th bay. Polychrome tile imposts to windows in bays 11 to 23. Round-arcaded first floor with plain roundels in blind tympana over slightly-recessed paired round-headed sash windows separated by pilasters with palmette capitals. Slightly-pointed gauged brick arches over ground and first-floor arcades. Dogtooth sill string. Paired round-headed 2nd- floor sash windows, separated by similar pilasters, under gauged brick heads and hoodmoulds. Bracketed sill string and eaves cornice. Gabled dormers, with copings and gableted kneelers, and pointed windows, over bays 2,4,6,8 and 10. Transverse ridge stacks. 7-bay extension, with slightly wider centre bay. Segment-headed windows with renewed glazing, in keyed round-headed recesses on first floor and segment-headed recesses on 2nd floor; all slightly recessed in tall segment-headed arches. Plain fascias below first-floor windows. Bracketed eaves cornice. 2 transverse ridge stacks. Similar 5-bay right return, with oculus in gable over 3 left bays. Similar cornice over 2 right bays, and partly-projecting stack with stepped cornice and tall obelisk shaft. 2 right bays altered on ground floor. Rear extensions not of special interest. Largely unoccupied and dilapidated at time of resurvey. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ4968420647

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Legacy System number:: 59723
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.