57-60 Sandhill, Watergate Buildings
57-60 Sandhill, Watergate Buildings
HER Number
8746
District
Newcastle
Site Name
57-60 Sandhill, Watergate Buildings
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Shop
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Shops and offices. 1830; late C19 addition of top storey and insertion of
shops. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 14 bays. Projecting end
bays have pilasters; intermediate bays curve around corner. Channelled
rustication to ground floor with sashes and shops under entablature with
dentilled egg-and-dart cornice. Upper floors have sashes in plain reveals,
those on first floor long and with upper glazing bars; glazing bars to top
2 floors. First floor band; deep second-floor entablature and cornice. Third
floor has keyed raised surrounds to each end bay and to intermediate bays
at intervals. Pediments to outer bays under high hipped roof. Low-pitched
roof to central section with ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
shops. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 14 bays. Projecting end
bays have pilasters; intermediate bays curve around corner. Channelled
rustication to ground floor with sashes and shops under entablature with
dentilled egg-and-dart cornice. Upper floors have sashes in plain reveals,
those on first floor long and with upper glazing bars; glazing bars to top
2 floors. First floor band; deep second-floor entablature and cornice. Third
floor has keyed raised surrounds to each end bay and to intermediate bays
at intervals. Pediments to outer bays under high hipped roof. Low-pitched
roof to central section with ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425179
Northing
563820
Grid Reference
NZ425179563820
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/510; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 108