St Nicholas' Buildings
ST NICHOLAS' BUILDINGS, 1-5, ST NICHOLAS' STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024772
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas' Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS' BUILDINGS, 1-5, ST NICHOLAS' STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024772
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas' Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST NICHOLAS' BUILDINGS, 1-5, ST NICHOLAS' STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST NICHOLAS' BUILDINGS, 2-10, WESTGATE ROAD
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:
- ST NICHOLAS' BUILDINGS, 1-5, ST NICHOLAS' STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS' BUILDINGS, 2-10, WESTGATE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 24953 63924
Details
NZ 2463 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE WESTGATE ROAD (north
side)
23/488 Nos. 2-10 even
G.V. II
The left return of Nos. 1 - 5 consecutive St. Nicholas' Street (St. Nicholas'
Buildings) (q.v.)
NZ 2463 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ST. NICHOLAS' STREET
(west side)
23/488 Nos. 1 - 5 consecutive
(St. Nicholas' Buildings)
G.V. II
Shops and offices. Circa 1850 by Parnell. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof;
rendered chimneys. Venetian Renaissance style. 4-storeys, with fifth over left
entrance section and attics over right; 27 bays in all - 5:5:11:5:1, with 5-bay
principal entrance sections flanking 11-bay part. Entrance sections have recessed
double doors in outer bays, with lunettes above flanking 3-bay lunette, with
roundels in carved spandrels, over shops; all lunettes keyed. ll-bay section has
central double door and overlight recessed between Tuscan pilasters. Channelled
rustication to piers flanking other doors and defining some shops. Large raised
numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 on fascias over doors; 5 incised on piers flanking shop
at right. Ground-floor entablature. 1st floor has mullioned-and-transomed 2-
light windows in Tuscan Order; Giant Order above contains cross windows in
hollow-chamfered reveals on second floor and 2-round-headed lights in arches on
Gothic pilasters on third floor. Modillioned eaves cornice. Attic sashes in
3 pedimented aedicules at left and in intermediate bays; in similar aedicules
to dormers at right and in intermediate plain dormers in mansard roof.
See also under Nos. 2-10 (even) Westgate Road.
Listing NGR: NZ2495363924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304828
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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