Newcastle, Broad Chare, Trinity House Banqueting Hall

HER Number:
8876

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Broad Chare, Trinity House Banqueting Hall

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Eating and Drinking Establishment

Site Type: Specific:
Banqueting House

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Banqueting Hall. Dated 1721 on plaque. English garden wall bond brick (4 and one) with painted ground floor and ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 windows. Ground floor has segmental-headed passage arch in third bay; irregular fenestration: 3 square windows, 2 on left C19 2-light, Tudor style under drip moulds. First floor has covered gallery in first bay linking with adjacent building; 5 elliptical-headed sash windows with wide glazing bars in architraves with small keys; moulded sills. Floor string; gutter cornice under parapet with pilasters and ashlar coping. Interior shows 4-bay hall with panelled walls; ceiling has stucco decoration with central oval compass. Re-used Jacobean overmantel with carved side panels and central arms of Charles I. Mostly original or early glass. Board room off entrance passage: dated 1791 on plaque on right return to rear of banqueting hall. Probably by John Stokoe. Half- glazed door and screen to passage; stucco modillioned ceiling cornice; chimney piece with cornice. LISTED GRADE 1

Easting:
2542

Northing:
6396

Grid Reference:
NZ25426396

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 21/126 and 24/126; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 11