12 Mosley Street
12 Mosley Street
HER Number
8768
District
Newcastle
Site Name
12 Mosley Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Bank (Financial)
Site Type: Specific
Bank (Financial)
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Bank. 1891 by A. Waterhouse for Prudential Assurance Company. Basement and 4
storeys; 5 x 5 bays. Red granite basement with wrought iron grilles; red brick
and red sandstone upper floors; Lakeland slate roof. Free early-Renaissance
style. Canted corner bay contains steps up to c.1980 glass door in round arch
flanked brackets ending in Ionic capitals- these support entablature, above
which are scrolls and a small pediment. Ground floor has large mullioned-and-
transomed windows; mullioned windows above, those on second floor under seqmental
pediments. Steeply pitched roof with small segmental pediments on gables. LISTED GRADE 2
storeys; 5 x 5 bays. Red granite basement with wrought iron grilles; red brick
and red sandstone upper floors; Lakeland slate roof. Free early-Renaissance
style. Canted corner bay contains steps up to c.1980 glass door in round arch
flanked brackets ending in Ionic capitals- these support entablature, above
which are scrolls and a small pediment. Ground floor has large mullioned-and-
transomed windows; mullioned windows above, those on second floor under seqmental
pediments. Steeply pitched roof with small segmental pediments on gables. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425070
Northing
564080
Grid Reference
NZ425070564080
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 21/611; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 23 and 149