Newcastle, Grainger Street, Grainger Market

HER Number:
8821

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Grainger Street, Grainger Market

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Market

Site Type: Specific:
Market Hall

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Covered market. 1835 by John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Painted plaster with cast iron grilles; cast iron girder roof to west range, plaster to other ranges. Rear range a large rectangle, with bowed lattice girder roof and glazed roof-lights; other ranges a grid with open shops, many with iron grilles over, with pilasters defining bays, and with large shop numbers on fascia. Flat roofs with plastered cross beams; cross passages running from Granger Street have round-arched ceilings. Much original work visible, probably more remains behind boarded fascias. Walls above shops contain sashes with vertical glazing bars. An early covered market, built to replace the 1808 'Butcher Market' which Grainger had to demolish before Grey Street could be laid out. Source: Wilkes and Dodds Tyneside Classical 1964. LISTED GRADE 1

Easting:
2474

Northing:
6431

Grid Reference:
NZ24746431

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/259; Wilkes and Dodds Tyneside Classical 1964; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 17 and 23, 158-9; I. Ayris, 1997, A City of Palaces