65 Quayside (Coronation Buildings)
65 Quayside (Coronation Buildings)
HER Number
8951
District
Newcastle
Site Name
65 Quayside (Coronation Buildings)
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Commercial Office
Site Type: Specific
Commercial Office
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Offices. Circa 1902 for Pyman Bell and Co. Rear half demolished and front range
restored c.1982. Ashlar sandstone with granite plinth and entrance columns;
Welsh slate roof. Symmetrical. Art nouveau Baroque style. 3 storeys and attic;
5 windows. Ground floor rustications form voussoirs to wide round-arched windows
flanking doorway with semicircular pedimented hood on Ionic columns. Side
windows plain below serpentine first-floor stone balconies. Upper windows in
architraves, first floor with triple keystones and pediments, the inner ones
segmental. Second-floor rusticated architraves and Ionic half-column bay divisions.
Outer bays framed in giant Ionic pilasters. Strong modillioned and dentilled top
entablature below attic of three pedimented gables, the outer ones rounded. LISTED GRADE 2
restored c.1982. Ashlar sandstone with granite plinth and entrance columns;
Welsh slate roof. Symmetrical. Art nouveau Baroque style. 3 storeys and attic;
5 windows. Ground floor rustications form voussoirs to wide round-arched windows
flanking doorway with semicircular pedimented hood on Ionic columns. Side
windows plain below serpentine first-floor stone balconies. Upper windows in
architraves, first floor with triple keystones and pediments, the inner ones
segmental. Second-floor rusticated architraves and Ionic half-column bay divisions.
Outer bays framed in giant Ionic pilasters. Strong modillioned and dentilled top
entablature below attic of three pedimented gables, the outer ones rounded. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425430
Northing
563920
Grid Reference
NZ425430563920
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/464; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 123