Sunlight Chambers
SUNLIGHT CHAMBERS, 2-4, BIGG MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116510
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sunlight Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- SUNLIGHT CHAMBERS, 2-4, BIGG MARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116510
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sunlight Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNLIGHT CHAMBERS, 2-4, BIGG MARKET
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:
- SUNLIGHT CHAMBERS, 2-4, BIGG MARKET
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 24847 64143
Details
NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BIGG MARKET (north side)
20/103 Nos 2 - 4 (even) Sunlight Chambers.
G.V. II
Offices. 1901-2 by W and S Owen for Lever Bros. Modified Baroque style. Sandstone ashlar ground floor with mosaic frieze; painted rendered upper floors with ashlar dressings; roof of French tiles. Art nouveau style. Basement, 3 storeys and attics; 3 bays and five in right return to High Bridge. Central basement entrance down steps. Hollow-chamfered reveals and alternately- projecting blocks to door under ornamental iron grille in first bay; similar surrounds to basement and ground floor windows, with iron grilles to the former. Ground floor frieze depicting harvest and industry, and cornice modillioned above door. Architraves to windows above with pulvinated frieze and cornice on first floor, and tall triple keys to second, all sashes with glazing bars. Pilaster strips and rendered eaves, frieze with swags linking keystones; egg-and-dart-moulded cornice. 3 flat dormers have similar sashes.
Listing NGR: NZ2484764143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304406
- 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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