Newcastle, Summerhill Street, Nos. 2-24

HER Number:
8725

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Summerhill Street, Nos. 2-24

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Multiple Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
Terrace

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Includes No. 5 Elswick Road. Terrace of houses. Mid C19. English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roofs, sandstone rubble rear and returns. 2 storeys, 2 bays each. Right corner is shop with carved bracketed fascia and curved corner bay. Architraves to doors, some 4-panelled, with over- lights. Wedge stone lintels to windows, nearly all sashes and some with glazing bars; curved window in right corner to Westgate Road. Ground floor projecting stone sills; first floor sill band. Eaves band and gutter cornices. End brick chimneys, some ashlar-corniced. Included for group value with Church of St. Matthew and as example of early working-class housing. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2381

Northing:
6413

Grid Reference:
NZ23816413

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 18/540