50 and 52 Dean Street

HER Number:
8841

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
50 and 52 Dean Street

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

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:
Shop and house. Circa 1784; remodelled 1902 by Benjamin Simpson. Sandstone ashlar ground floor; painted brick above with painted ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Art Nouveau shop. 3 storeys and attic, 2 bays. Door at left and wide window at right in 3 fat Ionic half-columns with exaggerated entasis; wood mullions and transoms to segmental-headed window. Plain sashes above in architraves, bracketed on second floor. Eaves band and gutter cornice. Mansard roof has wide pedimented dormer and ashlar-corniced brick chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
425060

Northing:
564070

Grid Reference:
NZ425060564070

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 21/219; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 150