Tyne and Wear HER(8877): Newcastle, Broad Chare, Trinity House, Nos. 4, 5 and 6 - Details
8877
Newcastle
Newcastle, Broad Chare, Trinity House, Nos. 4, 5 and 6
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Building
Storehouse
Medieval
C16
Extant Building
Storage building, later rigging loft and dwellings, now storage and empty
offices. Early C16. Sandstone with Welsh slate roof. South elevation to
Trinity House yard: 3 storeys, 4 bays. Wide architraves to 5-panelled doors
in bays 3, 4 and 6. Almost regular fenestration. Sash windows with glazing
bars in C20 architraves; narrow casement at left end of first floor; chamfered
surround to small square casement on second floor at left; similarly-shaped
blocked openings at intervals on second floor. 2-storey buttress between
fourth and fifth bays; probable garderobe chute at right end, with small
square window inserted. Steeply-pitched end gables have overlapping stone
coping and eroded carved finials. Sundial dated 1721 at centre of second
floor possibly resited. Interior shows very strong first floor on corbels;
king-post roof with arched tie beam. Source: McCombie "The Buildings of
Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne" Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series XIII. LISTED GRADE 1
2536
6400
NZ25366400
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 21/128