Tyne and Wear HER(9176): 23 to 29 Collingwood Street (Sun Insurance) - Details
9176
Newcastle
23 to 29 Collingwood Street (Sun Insurance)
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Commercial Office
Commercial Office
20TH CENTURY
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Extant Building
This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Offices. 1902-4 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood for Sun Insurance Co. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door surrounds. Copper roof. Free style. 6 storeys, 5 bays and 3-bay cimved right corner. Central double door in bolection-moulded architrave with coved rusticated stone surround to that and to fanlight; rusticated ground floor. Prominent brackets above door support balcony to window in segmental- pedimented Ionic aedicule with carved sun. Architraves to all windows; bracketed pediments to those in outer first - floor bays, and cornices on second floor. Prominent modillioned top cornice. Curved corner has high plinth with cushion rustication and guilloche band; door in central bay has fluted architrave under oeil-de-boeuf flanked by large Atlantes, on brackets with much leaf and flower carving, which support first-floor balcony. Balconies have wrought-iron sun motif. Right return to Westgate Road continues plinth and has giant Corinthian pilasters to segmental pediment containing large sunburst. Copper-covered blocking course ornamented with repeated S. Roof curved over corner bay.'
In 2013 this is Saints Hairdressing, Hippo House and Prontaprint. Offices above. LISTED GRADE 2
424840
563950
NZ424840563950
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 23/206; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 104; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 21 and 161; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1355250