Sun Insurance Buildings
SUN INSURANCE BUILDINGS, 23-29, COLLINGWOOD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355250
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Insurance Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- SUN INSURANCE BUILDINGS, 23-29, COLLINGWOOD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355250
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Insurance Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUN INSURANCE BUILDINGS, 23-29, COLLINGWOOD STREET
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:
- SUN INSURANCE BUILDINGS, 23-29, COLLINGWOOD STREET
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 24839 63961
Details
NZ 2463 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE COLLINGWOOD STREET (south side)
23/206 Nos. 23-29 odd (Sun Insurance Buildings)
G.V. II
Offices. 1902-4 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood for Sun Insurance Co. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door surrounds. Copper roof. Free style. 6 storeys, 5 bays and 3-bay cimved right corner. Central double door in bolection-moulded architrave with coved rusticated stone surround to that and to fanlight; rusticated ground floor. Prominent brackets above door support balcony to window in segmental- pedimented Ionic aedicule with carved sun. Architraves to all windows; bracketed pediments to those in outer first - floor bays, and cornices on second floor. Prominent modillioned top cornice. Curved corner has high plinth with cushion rustication and guilloche band; door in central bay has fluted architrave under oeil-de-boeuf flanked by large Atlantes, on brackets with much leaf and flower carving, which support first-floor balcony. Balconies have wrought-iron sun motif. Right return to Westgate Road continues plinth and has giant Corinthian pilasters to segmental pediment containing large sunburst. Copper-covered blocking course ornamented with repeated S. Roof curved over corner bay.
Listing NGR: NZ2483963961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304516
- 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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