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

Easting:
425170

Northing:
563890

Grid Reference:
NZ425170563890

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/525