Newcastle, Quayside, No. 39, Customs House

HER Number:
9123

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Quayside, No. 39, Customs House

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Maritime

Site Type: Broad:
Maritime House

Site Type: Specific:
Custom House

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18-C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Customs House. 1766; refronted 1833 by Sidney Smirke. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; brick left return and rear; rendered right return. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings; brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 5 windows. 2 steps to central double 2-panelled doors and 2-pane overlight in Tuscan porch with blocking course and royal arms of period 1801-37. Rusticated ground floor has 4 keyed arches, that at left on yard entry, others containing round-headed sashes with projecting stone sills in recessed panels. Sill panels to first floor sashes in pedimented Tuscan cases on first floor band; smaller second-floor sashes in architraves with projecting stone sills. Glazing bars of late C19 type. First floor band;fluted frieze and dentilled gutter cornice; coped parapet with pilasters. O.S. bench mark on doorcase. LISTED GRADE 2*

Easting:
2540

Northing:
6391

Grid Reference:
NZ25406391

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/462; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 18 and 122