Tyne and Wear HER(9104): Newcastle, Grainger Street, Nos. 139 to 159 - Details
9104
Newcastle
Newcastle, Grainger Street, Nos. 139 to 159
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Shop
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Shops and houses, now shops. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle, for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys; 19 bays and one-bay
curved corner to former High Friar Street:, now Eldon Shopping Centre. Ground
floor altered. First floor tripartite windows in end pavilions have Tuscan
pilasters and entablature with pedimented projecting centre; tripartite windows
on each floor above, with architraves and bracketed sills on second floor and
plain reveals on third. Central pavilion has architraves to first-and second-
floor windows, and cornices, the central pedimented, on first floor; bracketed
sills on second floor, plain reveals on third. All windows sashes, some with
glazing bars. Plainer intermediate sections have pilasters and entablature to
first-floor windows, second-floor sill string and entablature with prominent
cornice. Top cornice and blocking course. LISTED GRADE 2
2482
6438
NZ24826438
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/260; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p.158