Newcastle, St. Nicholas Square, Newcastle & Gateshead B Soc

HER Number:
8738

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, St. Nicholas Square, Newcastle & Gateshead B Soc

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Bank (Financial)

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Bank; circa 1845 by Benjamin Green for Newcastle Joint Stock Bank. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Palazzo style. 4 storeys, 5 bays. Central double door and overlight in rusticated ground floor with voussoirs to 5 arched openings, those to left of door covered by C20 fascia; round-headed windows in those at right, plain at left. First floor has panelled pilasters defining bays containing round-headed windows in keyed arched surrounds; wide moulded brackets support 3-bay second-floor balcony. Giant Ionic Order through second and third floors. Pulvinated friezes and pediments to 2nd floor windows, bracketed architraves to third. Entablature with dentilled and modillioned cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof has 3 conjoined ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2497

Northing:
6403

Grid Reference:
NZ24976403

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/396; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 20 and 162