NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS

NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS, 85-89, WESTGATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380580
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS
Statutory Address:: NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS, 85-89, WESTGATE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380580
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS
Statutory Address 1:: NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS, 85-89, WESTGATE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS, 85-89, 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 24461 64029

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ 2464 SW WESTGATE ROAD 1833/19/10104 (South side) 19-JUN-00 85-89 Northern Goldsmiths

GV II

Goldsmith's shop, warehouse and office. c1910, clock added c1932, shopfront remodelled c1960. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Four storey plus attics. Baroque Revival style. Corner site. Ground floor has shopfront c1960 with to left another shopfront c1980 and beyond original entrance doorway to offices above with double panel doors in fluted marble suround. First floor has blocked window on canted corner with projecting gilded square clock topped with a gilded female figure added c1932. Above single cross casement with attenuated keystone, another window above, both in round headed ashlar surround. Attic has small pair of windows. Hexagonal corner cupola has open facades with boldly rusticated Doric columns, each corner has square corbelled pilaster rising to square Ionic column. Cupola topped with copper dome. North front has 3 window centre flanked by single windows. Centre has 3 casements in rusticated surrounds with attenuated keystones rising to cill band above. Both floors of upper windows recessed between Ionic half-columns, supporting ornate entablature. 3 small cross casements the lower ones with segment arched heads and elongated keystones. Attic has single central window with moulded ashlar surround topped with segmental hood. Single window end bay has first floor window with moulded ashlar surround, upper windows incorporated in single moulded ashlar surround with carved panel between. Attic has pair of windows with bold mullion between rising into curved ashlar hood supported on brackets. South-east front has similar two window facade.

Listing NGR: NZ2446164029

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Legacy System number:: 480887
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.