The Side, workshops, stairs and wall
The Side, workshops, stairs and wall
HER Number
8720
District
Newcastle
Site Name
The Side, workshops, stairs and wall
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Warehouse
Site Type: Specific
Warehouse
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Warehouse and workshop buildings, part now gallery and cinema, on both sides of
stairs, with short length of rubble garden wall, and boarded door up 8 steps.
Late C18 and C19; stairs probably older. Mixed sandstone, some squared and some
roughly squared; bays nearest street have added brick upper storey; some brick
window heads. Welsh slate roofs and slate-hung gables over hoists. Buildings
ranging in height from 4 storeys at street end to one and a basement on south and
one storey on north, lO-bay south side; stack of loading doors with hoist over in
left bay; flush-panel doors in bays 6 and 9; casements with iron bars. All
openings have wide heavy stone lintels and flat stone sills. Stairs in 3 flights.
North side of 5 bays: double doors in right end bay under stack of loading doors
with hoist over; renewed door in alternate-block surround at left; casements with
iron bars have elliptical brick arches and plain sills. LISTED GRADE 2
stairs, with short length of rubble garden wall, and boarded door up 8 steps.
Late C18 and C19; stairs probably older. Mixed sandstone, some squared and some
roughly squared; bays nearest street have added brick upper storey; some brick
window heads. Welsh slate roofs and slate-hung gables over hoists. Buildings
ranging in height from 4 storeys at street end to one and a basement on south and
one storey on north, lO-bay south side; stack of loading doors with hoist over in
left bay; flush-panel doors in bays 6 and 9; casements with iron bars. All
openings have wide heavy stone lintels and flat stone sills. Stairs in 3 flights.
North side of 5 bays: double doors in right end bay under stack of loading doors
with hoist over; renewed door in alternate-block surround at left; casements with
iron bars have elliptical brick arches and plain sills. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425170
Northing
563890
Grid Reference
NZ425170563890
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/525