Tyne and Wear HER(8868): Newcastle, Collingwood Street, No.2 (Northern Assurance) - Details
8868
Newcastle
Newcastle, Collingwood Street, No.2 (Northern Assurance)
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Building
Office
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
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. LISTED GRADE 2
2489
6402
NZ24896402
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