Newcastle, Sandhill, Nos. 57-60 (Watergate Buildings)

HER Number:
8746

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Sandhill, Nos. 57-60 (Watergate Buildings)

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shops and offices. 1830; late C19 addition of top storey and insertion of shops. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 14 bays. Projecting end bays have pilasters; intermediate bays curve around corner. Channelled rustication to ground floor with sashes and shops under entablature with dentilled egg-and-dart cornice. Upper floors have sashes in plain reveals, those on first floor long and with upper glazing bars; glazing bars to top 2 floors. First floor band; deep second-floor entablature and cornice. Third floor has keyed raised surrounds to each end bay and to intermediate bays at intervals. Pediments to outer bays under high hipped roof. Low-pitched roof to central section with ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
25179

Northing:
63820

Grid Reference:
NZ2517963820

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/510; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 108