Newcastle, The Side, Nos. 5-13

HER Number:
8719

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, The Side, Nos. 5-13

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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

Easting:
2517

Northing:
6390

Grid Reference:
NZ25176390

Lats/Lons:

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