WOMENS INSTITUTE
WOMENS INSTITUTE, NEWBROUGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045014
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- WOMENS INSTITUTE
- Statutory Address:
- WOMENS INSTITUTE, NEWBROUGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045014
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- WOMENS INSTITUTE
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOMENS INSTITUTE, NEWBROUGH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WOMENS INSTITUTE, NEWBROUGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbrough
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 87418 67892
Summary
Mechanic’s Institute, 1854, enlarged 1890; later Women's Institute.
History
The Newbrough Reading Room and Mutual Improvement Society (later known as the Mechanic’s Institute) was established in 1849. Having quickly outgrown their meeting room, a new building was erected in 1854, funded by public subscription. The building was subsequently enlarged by George J Cookson in 1890.
In 1948 it was gifted to the local Women’s Institute, along with a sum of £100 for decorating and renovation work. Newbrough Women’s Institute was founded in 1923 by over a hundred women from the village, and prior to acquiring the former mechanic’s Institute, they met in the adjacent town hall.
Details
Mechanic’s Institute, 1854, enlarged 1890; later Women's Institute.
Materials: tooled squared stone and tooled and margined raised quoins; slate roof, coped gables with kneelers, tooled and margined ashlar stepped and corniced stacks.
Two storeys and four bays beneath a pitched roof. The three ground floor windows have raised stone surrounds with broad chamfers, and there is an entrance in a similar surround to the right, fitted with a six-panelled door. The three first floor windows are similar, and there is a smaller round-headed stair window to the right. Between the ground and first floor windows are inscribed panels 'The Women's' and 'Institute' flanking a framed tablet with the inscription: 'ESTABLISHED 1848 ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION 1854 AND ENLARGED BY GEORGE J COOKSON 1890'
Included for historical interest.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239342
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
History, topography, and directory of Northumberland, comprising a general survey of the country, and history of the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, London; Manchester, 1855.
Northumberland Federation of Women’s Institutes (1994)
Northumberland Village Book (Villages of Britain), Countryside Books
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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