Newcastle, Summerhill Grove, Nos. 1-8

HER Number:
8724

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Summerhill Grove, Nos. 1-8

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
House

Site Type: Specific:
Semi Detached House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
4 pairs of semi-detached houses. Circa 1830. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar basement and dressings; Welsh slate roofs. 3 storeys, with some attics; 2 bays to each house. Steps up to doors at left of each pair; 6-panelled doors and overlights recessed in panelled reveals of flat Tuscan doorcases. Wedge stone lintels to sashes, with glazing bars in those of Nos. 1, 2 and 7, margined to Nos. 3 and 4, plain to Nos. 5 and 8. Canted bays to basement and ground floor of No. 8, ground and first floor of No. 5. Renewed glazing to No. 6. Projecting stone sills to ground-and second-floor windows. Bands at first floor and first floor sills. Hipped roofs have ashlar-bonded brick chimneys. Spear-headed area railings, and plain handrails to steps. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2397

Northing:
6398

Grid Reference:
NZ23976398

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/537 and 22/537; Newcastle City Council, 2001, Summerhill Conservation Area Character Statement, p 19