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8876


Newcastle


Broad Chare, Trinity House Banqueting Hall


Newcastle


NZ26SE


Recreational


Eating and Drinking Establishment


Banqueting House


POST MEDIEVAL


Hanoverian 1714 to 1837


Extant Building


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


425420


563960


NZ425420563960



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

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