Newcastle, Quayside, No. 65 (Coronation Buildings)

HER Number:
8951

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Quayside, No. 65 (Coronation Buildings)

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. Circa 1902 for Pyman Bell and Co. Rear half demolished and front range restored c.1982. Ashlar sandstone with granite plinth and entrance columns; Welsh slate roof. Symmetrical. Art nouveau Baroque style. 3 storeys and attic; 5 windows. Ground floor rustications form voussoirs to wide round-arched windows flanking doorway with semicircular pedimented hood on Ionic columns. Side windows plain below serpentine first-floor stone balconies. Upper windows in architraves, first floor with triple keystones and pediments, the inner ones segmental. Second-floor rusticated architraves and Ionic half-column bay divisions. Outer bays framed in giant Ionic pilasters. Strong modillioned and dentilled top entablature below attic of three pedimented gables, the outer ones rounded. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2543

Northing:
6392

Grid Reference:
NZ25436392

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/464; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 123