45 Northumberland Street
45 Northumberland Street
HER Number
8784
District
Newcastle
Site Name
45 Northumberland Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Chemists Shop
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Shop, formerly Messrs. Boots. Circa 1900. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Renewed ground
floor shop front; rusticated pilasters to each floor. First floor has tripartite
sash, with central pediment, flanked by niches; 3 sashes above have keyed
architraves and intermediate niches. Cornice to first floor breaks forward over
pilasters and over brackets to second floor niches. Broken segmental dentilled
pediment breaking forward over the latter niches contains swags, bracket and raised
panel. Top blocking course. Life-size figures in shell-canopied niches are in
appropriate period costume and named Sir John Marley, Roger Thornton, Thomas
Bewick and Harry Hotspur. LISTED GRADE 2
floor shop front; rusticated pilasters to each floor. First floor has tripartite
sash, with central pediment, flanked by niches; 3 sashes above have keyed
architraves and intermediate niches. Cornice to first floor breaks forward over
pilasters and over brackets to second floor niches. Broken segmental dentilled
pediment breaking forward over the latter niches contains swags, bracket and raised
panel. Top blocking course. Life-size figures in shell-canopied niches are in
appropriate period costume and named Sir John Marley, Roger Thornton, Thomas
Bewick and Harry Hotspur. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424880
Northing
564580
Grid Reference
NZ424880564580
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 14/431; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 126-7; Grace McCombie, 2009, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Newcastle and Gateshead, p 199