Newcastle, Collingwood Street, No. 5

HER Number:
9159

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Collingwood Street, No. 5

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shop and offices. 1898 by J.W. Taylor for J.C. Eno. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Free Baroque style. 4 storeys and attics, 3 bays. Shop with curved glass to central set-back entrance; double door at left to house has overlight. High keystones to first-floor arcade with round-headed windows, with cartouches between, under serpentine cornice. Central second-floor window has Ionic pilasters and pediment; flat pilasters to windows in outer bays and on third floor. Prominent dentilled cornice. High broken pediment and obelisk finial to central round- headed dormer with flanking consoles. Mansard roof. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2490

Northing:
6399

Grid Reference:
NZ24906399

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/203 and 23/203; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 161