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8774


Newcastle


12A Nelson Street


Newcastle


NZ26SW


Commercial


Warehouse


Warehouse


POST MEDIEVAL


Victorian 1837 to 1901


Extant Building


Warehouse, now facade of Eldon Centre shopping precinct. Circa 1899 by Marshall and Tweedy. Sandstone ashlar. Roof not visible. Free Baroque style. 4 storeys and attics; 5 bays. Ground floor has Ionic pilasters flanking renewed windows and recessed entrances, under bracketed fascia. Brackets support slender pilasters extending 2 ½ storeys defining bays and having cartouche finials. 2-storey bracketed oriels in outer bays; and all other windows have slender wood mullions and transoms; top windows have 2-storey keyed architraves to inner bays, outer segmental-headed architraves. Modillioned eaves cornice; parapet with 3 segmental- headed attics windows. Included for group value. This building has been redeveloped behind the facade so that only the facade is of interest. LISTED GRADE 2


424770


564380


NZ424770564380



Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/403; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p.158

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