6 And 7 Eldon Square / 44B And 44C Blackett Street / 1-4 Eldon Square

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This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

NZ 2464 NE and NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ELDON SQUARE NZ 2464 SE (east side) 16/223 and 20/223 Nos. 1-4 consecutive and Nos. 6 and 7.

14.6.54 G.V. II* Includes Nos. 44b and 44c Blackett Street (q.v.). Houses, now offices and shops.

1825-31; by Thomas Oliver and John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Basement, 3 storeys and some later attics; 33 bays in all, with slightly-projecting 5-bay end pavilions defined by giant pilasters. Houses vary from 3 to 5 bays. 8-panelled doors and overlights (with glazing bars to No.4).

Plain reveals to these and to sash windows, mostly with glazing bars; aprons to ground floor windows. First floor sill string in outer bays; second floor entablature and cornice; top plainer cornice. Later mansard roof with 5 dormers to No.6; 2 inserted pedimented dormers to No.1.Ashlar ridge chimneys. Right return in similar style has C20 shops inserted in ground floor, giant corner pilaster at right; glazing bars to sash windows on upper floors. Source: T. Oliver New Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle 1831, 97.

NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BLACKETT STREET (north side)

20/223 Nos 44b and 44c

G.V. II*

The right return of Nos. 1 - 7 Eldon Square (q.v.).



Listing NGR: NZ2478564519

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0486 IOE Records taken by Bob Cottrell; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project