1 to 15 Walker Terrace
1 to 15 Walker Terrace
HER Number
8306
District
Gateshead
Site Name
1 to 15 Walker Terrace
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Early C19. Substantial terrace of local pinkish brick with stone dressings, Welsh slate roofs, brick chimneys with stone cornices. Two storeys, each five bays except the end houses, of two bays with three-bay returns holding doors. Brick pilaster bay divisions have stone capitals. Stone plinth, frieze, eaves cornice, lintels and cills; and architraves to ground floor windows and to all windows on ends. Sashes with glazing bars. Four-panel doors with oblong fanlights; Doric doorcases on ends, architraves elsewhere. Stone forecourt wall with moulded coping, square gate piers, and an interrupted flight of stone steps to each house. Some interiors retain pleasing decorative plaster cornices, especially in hall and staircase areas. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425400
Northing
562990
Grid Reference
NZ425400562990
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 5 & 7/27; Gateshead Council, 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Walker Terrace/Regent Street Conservation Area, pp 20-24; 5 Walker Terrace Heritage Statement, 2018