34 to 40 Grey Street
34 to 40 Grey Street
HER Number
9081
District
Newcastle
Site Name
34 to 40 Grey Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
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
cornice. Top windows, the outer in architraves, under cornice and balustrade. Inserted mansard roof. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424990
Northing
564160
Grid Reference
NZ424990564160
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