Newcastle, Groat Market, Nos. 35 and 37

HER Number:
8804

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Groat Market, Nos. 35 and 37

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

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

Easting:
2483

Northing:
6409

Grid Reference:
NZ24836409

Lats/Lons:

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