Newcastle, Dean Street, Nos. 12 and 14

HER Number:
8840

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Dean Street, Nos. 12 and 14

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:

Site Type: Broad:
Building

Site Type: Specific:
Office

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Offices and warehouse, now restaurant. 1901 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood for John Taylor and Co., leather and rubber manufacturers. Painted rusticated ashlar ground floor with later shop front; steel frame above with wood pilasters and mosaic panels; brick first bay tower and canted right corner. Jacobean style treatment on steel frame. 4 storeys and attics, 8 bays. First bay tower contains round-headed office entrance with voussoirs under oval window; narrow sashes in architraves on upper floors; eaves cornice and oculus in tower above with parapet. Central restaurant recessed in slender pilasters; slender quasi-Ionic pilasters above frame 7 lights, sashes with glazing bars, on each floor, with strap-work patterns in blue and yellow mosaic panels between floors. Eaves cornice. Hipped roof has segmental-headed 3-light dormer. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2510

Northing:
6399

Grid Reference:
NZ25106399

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 21/215 and 24/215; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 25 and 150