Tyne and Wear HER(9018): Newcastle, Bigg Market, Nos. 2 to 4, Sunlight Chambers - Details
9018
Newcastle
Newcastle, Bigg Market, Nos. 2 to 4, Sunlight Chambers
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Building
Office
Modern
C20
Extant Building
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
2484
6414
NZ24846414
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