2 to 4 Bigg Market, Sunlight Chambers

2 to 4 Bigg Market, Sunlight Chambers

HER Number
9018
District
Newcastle
Site Name
2 to 4 Bigg Market, Sunlight Chambers
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Commercial Office
Site Type: Specific
Commercial Office
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Offices. 1901-2 by W and S Owen for Lever Bros. Modified Baroque style.
Sandstone ashlar ground floor with mosaic frieze; painted rendered upper floors
with ashlar dressings; roof of French tiles. Art nouveau style. Basement,
3 storeys and attics; 3 bays and five in right return to High Bridge.
Central basement entrance down steps. Hollow-chamfered reveals and alternately-
projecting blocks to door under ornamental iron grille in first bay; similar
surrounds to basement and ground floor windows, with iron grilles to the
former. Ground floor frieze depicting harvest and industry, and cornice
modillioned above door. Architraves to windows above with pulvinated frieze
and cornice on first floor, and tall triple keys to second, all sashes
with glazing bars. Pilaster strips and rendered eaves, frieze with swags
linking keystones; egg-and-dart-moulded cornice. 3 flat dormers have
similar sashes. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424840
Northing
564140
Grid Reference
NZ424840564140
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/103; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 140