Tyne and Wear HER(8868): 2 Collingwood Street (Northern Assurance) - Details
8868
Newcastle
2 Collingwood Street (Northern Assurance)
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Commercial Office
Commercial Office
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Extant Building
This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'Offices. 1878 by Austin, Johnson and Hicks; later rear addition. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and doorcase; graduated dark slate roof. Palladian style. 3 storeys and attics; 7 bays. Rusticated arcaded ground floor has vermiculate plinth. Giant Ionic Order frames upper floors. Central doorcase, with fluted pilasters and pulvinated frieze, and round-headed windows recessed between pilasters. Carved tympanum above entrance is flanked by large consoles of square first-floor balcony; serpentine balconies, with bowed railings, to other first-floor windows, all in architraves under bracketed alternate pediments. Second-floor windows in archi- traves. Entablature inscribed NORTHERN ASSURANCE CO. LTD. ESTABLISHED 1836 has prominent modillioned cornice. Roof has balustrade and pedimented dormers. Right return to Groat Market of 2 bays, the second later, in similar style.' {1}.
1878 with 1890s extension to Groat Market. Elaborate classical front with rusticated ground floor and pedimented piano nobile windows with frivolous serpentine balconies. LISTED GRADE 2
424890
564020
NZ424890564020
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/201; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 162; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1024922