104 - 108 Grey Street (Waterstones)
104 - 108 Grey Street (Waterstones)
HER Number
8802
District
Newcastle
Site Name
104 - 108 Grey Street (Waterstones)
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Shop
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Includes No.1 Hood Street (q.v.). Shop. 1902-4 by W.H. Knowles and T. and R.
Milburn. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 5 bays and 3 to Hood
Street on right return. Giant Corinthian order to top 3 storeys, three-quarter
columns in centre of Grey Street elevation and pilasters elsewhere, with full
entablature with bracketed cornice. Good Edwardian shop front intact on ground
floor. First floor has tripartite window in centre bays, the centre lights flanked
by low columns and pedimented; windows have keystones and cornices. Second floor
windows have scrolled pediments or shaped cornices of High Roman Baroque type,
taken from Rossi's Studio d'Architectura Civile. Third-floor windows in architraves. LISTED GRADE 2
Milburn. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 5 bays and 3 to Hood
Street on right return. Giant Corinthian order to top 3 storeys, three-quarter
columns in centre of Grey Street elevation and pilasters elsewhere, with full
entablature with bracketed cornice. Good Edwardian shop front intact on ground
floor. First floor has tripartite window in centre bays, the centre lights flanked
by low columns and pedimented; windows have keystones and cornices. Second floor
windows have scrolled pediments or shaped cornices of High Roman Baroque type,
taken from Rossi's Studio d'Architectura Civile. Third-floor windows in architraves. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424904
Northing
564395
Grid Reference
NZ424904564395
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/298; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 166; David Lovie, 1997, The Buildings of Grainger Town, p 6