Tyne and Wear HER(8698): Newcastle, Westgate Road, Union Club - Details
8698
Newcastle
Newcastle, Westgate Road, Union Club
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Recreational
Club
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Club. Circa 1874 by M.P. Manning. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Corner
building. French Renaissance style. 3 storeys and attics; 3 wide bays. Double door
and fanlight recessed behind arch at right: of central bay, and cross window at
left; flanking tripartite stone-mullioned windows and entrance arch all have
brackets supporting first-floor oriels in outer bays and balcony to arched recess
over door. First-floor pilasters and cornice; smaller second-floor windows under
cornice broken by half-dormers over oriels. Consoles and raised pediments to
dormers and to high panel over central bay containing small windows and flanked
by very tall pedimented chimneys. Hips breaking forward over end bays of steep-
pitched roof. Similarly ornate treatment to long left return facing St. John's
Church. LISTED GRADE 2
2475
6400
NZ24756400
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/565 and 23/565; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 114