5-13 The Side
5-13 The Side
HER Number
8719
District
Newcastle
Site Name
5-13 The Side
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Shop
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Shops and offices. Circa 1855. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof; brick
chimneys. Italianate style. 3 storeys, 5 bays, the central narrower and containing
open passage to stairs and workshops behind. 4 shops are arcaded with slender
pilasters and leafy capitals supporting elliptical arches, to shops and recessed
entrances. Each floor has pilasters and entablature, those of upper floors with
modillioned cornices, framing round-headed sashes in pilaster surrounds with leafy
capitals; similar carving to impost bands; Windows paired except in central bay.
Painted mirror advertisement in right reveal of Quayside Newsagency at right:
MURATTI'S WORLD RENOWNED CIGARETTES/"ARISTON"/SMOKED BY/ ROYALTY AND NOBILITY/"NEB-KA"/SMOKED BY MILLIONS. LISTED GRADE 2
chimneys. Italianate style. 3 storeys, 5 bays, the central narrower and containing
open passage to stairs and workshops behind. 4 shops are arcaded with slender
pilasters and leafy capitals supporting elliptical arches, to shops and recessed
entrances. Each floor has pilasters and entablature, those of upper floors with
modillioned cornices, framing round-headed sashes in pilaster surrounds with leafy
capitals; similar carving to impost bands; Windows paired except in central bay.
Painted mirror advertisement in right reveal of Quayside Newsagency at right:
MURATTI'S WORLD RENOWNED CIGARETTES/"ARISTON"/SMOKED BY/ ROYALTY AND NOBILITY/"NEB-KA"/SMOKED BY MILLIONS. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425170
Northing
563900
Grid Reference
NZ425170563900
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/524; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 118