Tyne and Wear HER(8870): 29, 31, 33 Blackett Street (Eldon Buildings) - Details
8870
Newcastle
29, 31, 33 Blackett Street (Eldon Buildings)
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Hotel
Hotel
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Extant Building
Hotel, now shops. Includes No. 118 Grey Street. Dated 1893 on top panels; by
Oliver and Leeson. Circa 1982 ground-floor alterations. Sandstone ashlar; dark
slate roof. Curved corner site to Grey Street. 4 storeys, 8 bays, the 2 at
left end and that at right end wider. Hotel entrance in wide right bay.
Ground floor entablature has bracketed cornice supporting first floor balconies
(removed from 2 left end bays). Giant Composite Order to first and second floors;
Venetian windows in wide bays of first floor, round-headed windows in 5 bays
of curve, with ornamental glazing bars in heads under keyed arches. Second-floor
sashes in architraves under entablature with prominent modillioned cornice.
Plain top sashes with fluted band between heads of windows. Top cornice and
parapet with 3 carved panels: 18 F/M 93 on bays flanking curve and ELDON
BUILDINGS at centre, in Art Nouveau lettering, under alternate pediments.
High-relief coat of arms in central pediment. LISTED GRADE 2
424890
564430
NZ424890564430
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/113; Grace McCombie, 2009, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Newcastle and Gateshead, p 185; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume One - The Central Area, p 26