5 and 7 Market Street (Barclay's Bank)

5 and 7 Market Street (Barclay's Bank)

HER Number
8797
District
Newcastle
Site Name
5 and 7 Market Street (Barclay's Bank)
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Shop
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Shops and houses; now bank. Circa 1837 by Benjamin Green for Richard Grainger.
Part of left return of Theatre Royal, Grey Street. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate
roof. Classical style. 4 storeys and attics, 6 bays. Altered ground floor has
channelled rustication; renewed panelled double doors in first, fourth and six
bays, and windows in other bays, have joggled lintels. Ground-floor cornice.
All windows renewed pivoting lights with glazing bars. Upper floors plain in
left 3 bays; right 5 bays have square attached Giant Doric columns. Second-floor
entablature, breaking forward over right 5 bays; third floor has pilasters above
Order and top cornice breaking forward over each pilaster. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424950
Northing
564320
Grid Reference
NZ424950564320
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/375