25 King Street
25 King Street
HER Number
8788
District
Newcastle
Site Name
25 King Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Commercial Office
Site Type: Specific
Commercial Office
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Offices, now restaurant. Circa 1890. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof.
4 storeys and attic, 8 bays; Jacobethan style. Leaded casements in stone
mullioned-and-transomed cross windows. Paired pilasters flanking 2 bays at
each end, those on ground floor Tuscan order with paterae; Ionic Order above;
Corinthian on third floor, all with full-width entablatures with pulvinated
friezes; egg-and-dart-moulding to ground-floor cornice, dentils to first and
modillions to second. 2 dormers have similar windows in keyed arched recesses
flanked by consoles and under segmental pediments. Parapet with pilasters;
2 segmetal-headed dormers. One-bay right return to Quayside has similar dormer
with consoles giving shaped gable effect. LISTED GRADE 2
4 storeys and attic, 8 bays; Jacobethan style. Leaded casements in stone
mullioned-and-transomed cross windows. Paired pilasters flanking 2 bays at
each end, those on ground floor Tuscan order with paterae; Ionic Order above;
Corinthian on third floor, all with full-width entablatures with pulvinated
friezes; egg-and-dart-moulding to ground-floor cornice, dentils to first and
modillions to second. 2 dormers have similar windows in keyed arched recesses
flanked by consoles and under segmental pediments. Parapet with pilasters;
2 segmetal-headed dormers. One-bay right return to Quayside has similar dormer
with consoles giving shaped gable effect. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425340
Northing
563890
Grid Reference
NZ425340563890
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/352