Westgate Road, Westgate House/Norwich Union House

HER Number

12899

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Westgate Road, Westgate House/Norwich Union House

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Commercial Office

Site Type: Specific

Commercial Office

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Described by Grace McCombie (1992) as 'unspeakably ugly and intrusive'. 1965-71 by Cartwright Woolatt & Partners. Norwich Union House was designed, according to a contemporary account, 'to fit into the stone character of this part of the City'. Westgate House straddled Westgate Road on pilotis, in order to 'give a sense of enclosure'. Westgate House has been demolished.

Easting

424770

Northing

563980

Grid Reference

NZ424770563980

Sources

Nikolaus Pevsner and Ian Richmond, 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland (second edition revised by John Grundy, Grace McCombie, Peter Ryder and Humphrey Welfare), page 491; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead, pages 39, 114 and 143