67 Westgate Road

HER Number

9110

District

Newcastle

Site Name

67 Westgate Road

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

House, now part of arts centre. Mid-late C18 with ground floor shop fronts of C19 and C20: Painted brick in English garden wall bond, 4 and one, with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys and attic, 7 windows. Gauged flat brick arches to renewed sashes with glazing bars. Ground-floor cornice; modillioned eaves cornice; parapet with flat stone coping. Segmental-headed dormer partly concealed by parapet. Historical note: the house formerly belonged to University college, Oxford, and was leased by them to Sir M.W. Ridley, Bart. as his town house. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

424540

Northing

564000

Grid Reference

NZ424540564000

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/597 and 23/597