20 - 27 and 27B St. Thomas' Crescent

20 - 27 and 27B St. Thomas' Crescent

HER Number
8741
District
Newcastle
Site Name
20 - 27 and 27B St. Thomas' Crescent
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
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
This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'Terrace of houses. Circa 1862; No. 27 c.1842. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar plinth, basement to No. 27 and dressings. 2 storeys (No. 27 with basement), 3 bays each. 4-panelled doors and overlights in architraves at right of Nos. 20-26; No. 27 has steps up to central renewed 6-panel door; similar door in basement to No. 27b. First 7 houses have late C19 sashes with wedge stone lintels, ground-floor projecting sills, first-floor sill bands. No. 27 has recessed panels beneath sills of sashes with glazing bars; first floor band. Eaves band and gutter cornice. Brick chimneys, some ashlar-corniced. Cast iron spear-headed area railings and scroll balusters to hand-rails.'
Easting
424610
Northing
564800
Grid Reference
NZ424610564800
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 16/495; Newcastle City Council, 2000, Leazes Conservation Area Character Statement, pp 23-24; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1024774