Newcastle, Quayside, Nos. 77 and 79 (Baltic Chambers)

HER Number:
8762

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Quayside, Nos. 77 and 79 (Baltic Chambers)

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:

Site Type: Broad:
Building

Site Type: Specific:
Office

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Offices. Early C20. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible; ashlar-corniced grey brick chimney. Asymmetrical. Second-Empire classical style. 4 storeys, 2 bays, the right narrow with round-arched entrance holding internal flight of 4 steps to panelled double door. Ground floor rusticated. Shop front at left with cellar shute below. Upper windows sashes, those on first and second floors paired in left bay, with chamfered reveals and moulded segmental heads. Bowed ornamental aprons between floors. Giant flat pilasters support quasi-entablature at third floor level, above which they are rusticated and bifurcated up to top entablature; third floor sashes in architraves, triple in left bay. Included for group value with No. 65. Empty and derelict at time of survey. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2545

Northing:
6393

Grid Reference:
NZ25456393

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/465; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 123