Tyne and Wear HER(8784): Newcastle, Northumberland Street, No. 45 - Details
8784
Newcastle
Newcastle, Northumberland Street, No. 45
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Shop
Modern
C20
Extant Building
Shop, formerly Messrs. Boots. Circa 1900. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Renewed ground
floor shop front; rusticated pilasters to each floor. First floor has tripartite
sash, with central pediment, flanked by niches; 3 sashes above have keyed
architraves and intermediate niches. Cornice to first floor breaks forward over
pilasters and over brackets to second floor niches. Broken segmental dentilled
pediment breaking forward over the latter niches contains swags, bracket and raised
panel. Top blocking course. Life-size figures in shell-canopied niches are in
appropriate period costume and named Sir John Marley, Roger Thornton, Thomas
Bewick and Harry Hotspur. LISTED GRADE 2
2488
6458
NZ24886458
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 14/431; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 126-7; Grace McCombie, 2009, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Newcastle and Gateshead, p 199