Tyne and Wear HER(12898): Westgate Road, Great Northern Railway Co. Offices - Details
12898
Newcastle
Westgate Road, Great Northern Railway Co. Offices
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Commercial Office
Commercial Office
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Demolished Building
Fine ashlar building with a domed roof. The offices of the Great Northern Railway Company. Three storeys plus an attic space in the dome. Ground floor had a central doorway flanked by low rectangular windows with oriel windows above. The first floor had round-headed arched windows, and the second floor rectangular windows. Dormer window in the domed roof. A pediment with urns. To the west of the offices and adjoining was the property of ? Emersons Ltd and to the east on the corner of Pudding Chare, was a two storey property in the occupation of Charltons in 1900. These properties were replaced by Westgate House and Norwich Union House in 1965-71, which Grace McCombie (1992) described as 'unspeakably ugly'.
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Malcolm L Scaife, 1974, Newcastle Old and New, page 45