Customs House

CUSTOMS HOUSE, 39, QUAYSIDE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1325530
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1971
Statutory Address:
CUSTOMS HOUSE, 39, QUAYSIDE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1325530
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1971
Statutory Address 1:
CUSTOMS HOUSE, 39, QUAYSIDE

Location

Statutory Address:
CUSTOMS HOUSE, 39, QUAYSIDE

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 25400 63913

Details

NZ 2563 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE QUAYSIDE 24/462 No. 39 (Customs House) 17.12.71 G.V. II* Customs House. 1766; refronted 1833 by Sidney Smirke. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; brick left return and rear; rendered right return. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings; brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 5 windows. 2 steps to central double 2-panelled doors and 2-pane overlight in Tuscan porch with blocking course and royal arms of period 1801-37. Rusticated ground floor has 4 keyed arches, that at left on yard entry, others containing round-headed sashes with projecting stone sills in recessed panels. Sill panels to first floor sashes in pedimented Tuscan cases on first floor band; smaller second-floor sashes in architraves with projecting stone sills. Glazing bars of late C19 type. First floor band;fluted frieze and dentilled gutter cornice; coped parapet with pilasters. O.S. bench mark on doorcase.

Listing NGR: NZ2540063913

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