Tyne and Wear HER(8980): Newcastle, Westgate Road, No. 19, Irving House - Details
8980
Newcastle
Newcastle, Westgate Road, No. 19, Irving House
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Building
Office
Modern
C20
Extant Building
Offices. Dated 1910 on cartouche. By William Bell, for North Eastern Railway Company.
Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. Free Baroque style. 4 storeys, 5 bays. Central
wider bay has steps up to renewed double door and fanlight in rusticated surround
with recessed attached rusticated Ionic columns flanking keyed arch and supporting
open pediment with elaborate cartouche carved IRVING HOUSE. Plinth; rusticated ground
floor fonts voussoirs to round-headed sashes with carved keystones under cornice.
Architraves to all upper windows, those in first floor with Gibbs surrounds, the
central tripartite with central pediment. First floor cornice supports giant enriched
Ionic pilasters. Double keystones on first floor, triple in centre bay, second-floor
window cornices, third floor aprons and moulded sills; swag and garland to
central window. Top entablature has modillioned cornice and central segmental pediment
with dated cartouche. Balustrade above with consoles flanking central raised panel.
Two tall corniced end chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
2484
6391
NZ24846391
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 23/589; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 117