Exchange Buildings
6-10, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355283
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Exchange Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- 6-10, KING STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355283
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Exchange Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6-10, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, 16, QUEEN STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, 9, QUAYSIDE
- Statutory Address 4:
- EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, 9-15, LOMBARD STREET
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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:
- 6-10, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, 16, QUEEN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, 9, QUAYSIDE
- Statutory Address:
- EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, 9-15, LOMBARD 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 25318 63871
Details
NZ 2563 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE QUAYSIDE 24/351 No. 9 (Exchange Buildings) G.V. II Office block, incorporating No. 9-15 Lombard Street, No. 16 Queen Street and Nos. 6-10 King Street. Circa 1861 - 2 by Parnell. Rectangular block with large central light well. Basement and 4 storeys, with 5-storey central section; 3:5:3 bays x 3:10:3. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Shallow central porch contains steps up to panelled double door and overlight recessed in surround of panelled pilasters and keyed arch flanked by pilasters; high plinth supports paired Tuscan columns and entablature. Above this, a tripartite window has coped balcony with Ionic columns to centre entablature breaking forward under segmental pediment; second-floor tripartite window with segmental heads and central key under pediment; shallow balcony. Rusticated ground floor has round-headed windows, those in second bays from ends flanked by tall narrow windows in pilasters with paired brackets to first floor balustraded balcony. Ionic first- floor window surrounds under segmental pediments; floor above has similar treatment to that of centre bay. All windows sashes, with architraves to those not in classical surrounds; those on first floor have balustraded aprons and flanking pilasters; those on second floor have segmental heads with keyed cornices; third-floor windows have round heads in the centre section, square in the outer bays, under prominent modillioned cornices on long brackets. Centre section has top cornice above plainer windows. Attics have architraves to windows except the central which is Venetian, all under alternate pediments, with intermediate balustraded parapet. Mace finials. Historical note: the site was made available by a disastrous fire. Source: F. W. Dendy 'The six Newcastle chares destroyed by the fire of 1854'. Archaeologia Aeliana 2nd series XII 241-257.
Listing NGR: NZ2531863871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304789
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archaeologia Aeliana in Archaeologia Aeliana - Second Series, Vol. 7, (), 241-257
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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