The Close, Fish Market

HER Number:
9096

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
The Close, Fish Market

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Market

Site Type: Specific:
Fish Market

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Fish market, now warehouse. 1880 by A.M. Fowler. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. One high storey, 3 x 7 bays. 3-bay west elevation has bays defined by rusticated pilasters with entasis. Keyed arch and extended impost strings to central open entrance flanked by high keyed oculi; high entablature and deep cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof has roof lights and long, hipped ridge ventilator. Central arched entrances flanked by arched windows on each return. Entrances all have elaborate wrought iron gates under grilles with Newcastle arms. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
425130

Northing:
563760

Grid Reference:
NZ425130563760

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/191; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 103; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 108