35 and 37 Groat Market
35 and 37 Groat Market
HER Number
              8804
          District
              Newcastle
          Site Name
              35 and 37 Groat Market
          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
              House and shops, now shops and offices. Mid C18, with C20 shops. Incised stucco;
Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Central passage to rear
yard. Renewed shops. Right end entrance to offices above has hardboard-covered
door with overlight, round pilaster at right. 2-light casements on upper floors,
those on first floor with semicircular glazing bar in top light; and moulded sills.
Projecting second-floor sills. All have wedge stone lintels carved to suggest
alternately-projecting voussoirs. Second-floor band. C17 rubbed brick arch with
keystone in passage to rear. Interior shows staircase with splat-balustered upper
flights and delicate rococo stucco decoration to first floor room, now subdivided,
and to panel in hall. LISTED GRADE 2
          Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Central passage to rear
yard. Renewed shops. Right end entrance to offices above has hardboard-covered
door with overlight, round pilaster at right. 2-light casements on upper floors,
those on first floor with semicircular glazing bar in top light; and moulded sills.
Projecting second-floor sills. All have wedge stone lintels carved to suggest
alternately-projecting voussoirs. Second-floor band. C17 rubbed brick arch with
keystone in passage to rear. Interior shows staircase with splat-balustered upper
flights and delicate rococo stucco decoration to first floor room, now subdivided,
and to panel in hall. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
              424830
          Northing
              564090
          Grid Reference
              NZ424830564090
    Sources
              Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/301; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 139