128 and 130 Pilgrim Street
128 and 130 Pilgrim Street
HER Number
8759
District
Newcastle
Site Name
128 and 130 Pilgrim Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Shop
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Includes No 1 Mosley Street.
Shops and offices, 1899 by Benjamin Simpson. Cast iron frame with ashlar facades
in free classical style. Four storeys and attic. Three bays to Mosley Street,
four to Pilgrim Street. Chanelled piers and entablature to ground floor; central
broad segment-headed doorway to Mosley Street, with the entablature projecting on
brackets above; large plain-glass windows with glazing bars to the other bays;
diagonally-set corner doorway with stylised giant triple keystone over. Giant
Ionic Order and full entablature to first and second floors; central bay to Mosley
Street has shallow canted mullion-and-transom window rising through both storeys;
other windows in lugged architraves, with triple keystones on first floor.
Eaves cornice; a single pedimented dormer framed by pilasters, to each front. LISTED GRADE 2
Shops and offices, 1899 by Benjamin Simpson. Cast iron frame with ashlar facades
in free classical style. Four storeys and attic. Three bays to Mosley Street,
four to Pilgrim Street. Chanelled piers and entablature to ground floor; central
broad segment-headed doorway to Mosley Street, with the entablature projecting on
brackets above; large plain-glass windows with glazing bars to the other bays;
diagonally-set corner doorway with stylised giant triple keystone over. Giant
Ionic Order and full entablature to first and second floors; central bay to Mosley
Street has shallow canted mullion-and-transom window rising through both storeys;
other windows in lugged architraves, with triple keystones on first floor.
Eaves cornice; a single pedimented dormer framed by pilasters, to each front. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425080
Northing
564140
Grid Reference
NZ425080564140
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 21/385; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 149