26 to 31 Sandhill
26 to 31 Sandhill
HER Number
9117
District
Newcastle
Site Name
26 to 31 Sandhill
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shopping Parade
Site Type: Specific
Shopping Parade
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Shops and offices, now restaurant. c.1860. Incorporates No. 1, Side. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Curved corner site. Italianate style, 4 storeys and attics; 7 bays. Renewed ground floor shops have bays defined by flat Tuscan pilasters. Entrance in fourth narrow bay under single windows; tripartite windows in other bays, all plain sashes flanked by free Corinthian pilasters and under archivolts with keys. Bays defined by pilasters; cornices to each floor, the top 2 bracketed. 3 dormers, the central, above entrance, with paired sashes under keyed roundel in shaped gable, the outer round-headed. Roof balustrade has some sections missing at time of survey; building being restored. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425180
Northing
563890
Grid Reference
NZ425180563890
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/504