34 to 40 Grey Street

HER Number:
9081

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
34 to 40 Grey Street

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Shopping Parade

Site Type: Specific:
Shopping Parade

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shops and houses, now offices. Circa 1836 by Dobson for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar with c.1930 granite ground floor. Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 5 bays. Upper floors have Giant Corinthian pilasters flanking end bays; central 3 bays recessed. Paired sashes in plain reveals in end bays, those on first floor with dentilled and racketed cornices. Sashes in plain reveals in recessed centre, with first, floor deep cornice on paired brackets, and balustrade to first floor windows, linking end bays. Prominent entablature on second floor has dentilled cornice. Top windows, the outer in architraves, under cornice and balustrade. Inserted mansard roof. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
424990

Northing:
564160

Grid Reference:
NZ424990564160

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/292 and 21/292; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 164