Tyne and Wear HER(9073): Newcastle, Sandhill, No. 13 - Details
9073
Newcastle
Newcastle, Sandhill, No. 13
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Building
Office
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Offices. 1879 by Edward Shewbrook for W. A. Oliver. Sandstone ashlar and Welsh slate roof
with ashlar dressings. Free Baroque style. 4 storeys and attics, 5 windows. Ground floor has
rusticated plinth to fluted Dooric pilasters defining bays, the outer ones more narrow and each
containing low door, the left blocked and the right 2-panelled, with pulvinated frieze and
segmented pediment. Oeil de boeuf over each door, the left blocked and the right with glazing
bars. 3 wide inner bas have pilasters and archivolts to round-arched openings, the right with
C20 folding metal door and the central and left with plain light below transom light with
radiating glazing bars. Low basement windows in plinth have shouldered lintels. Ground floor
entablature has modillion cornice on which rest first floor windows. All upper windows have
wood mullions and transoms, first and second floor in architraves with raised alternating
pediments, and outer bays projecting slightly with fluted pilasters to each window; second floor
sill string and cornice. Top floor has fluted end pilasters, and Ionic half-columns frame round-
arched windows with pilasters and archivolts, the outer bays breaking forward on curved stone
brackets. Wide top frieze has modillion cornice over deep fascia with swags in outer bays, and
breaks forward over these bays. Attic storey has high segmental pediments over entablatures of
square dormer windows in end bays, and swept parapet linking these to tall central dormer with
Ionic pilasters supporting shaped gablet with oval light. Roof has stone gable coping and high
ashlar end stacks. (T186/8678). LISTED GRADE 2
2523
6387
NZ25236387
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 1833/24/10029; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 122