4, 5 and 6 Broad Chare, Trinity House

HER Number:
8877

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
4, 5 and 6 Broad Chare, Trinity House

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Civil

Site Type: Broad:
Meeting Hall

Site Type: Specific:
Guildhall

General Period:
MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Storage building, later rigging loft and dwellings, now storage and empty offices. Early C16. Sandstone with Welsh slate roof. South elevation to Trinity House yard: 3 storeys, 4 bays. Wide architraves to 5-panelled doors in bays 3, 4 and 6. Almost regular fenestration. Sash windows with glazing bars in C20 architraves; narrow casement at left end of first floor; chamfered surround to small square casement on second floor at left; similarly-shaped blocked openings at intervals on second floor. 2-storey buttress between fourth and fifth bays; probable garderobe chute at right end, with small square window inserted. Steeply-pitched end gables have overlapping stone coping and eroded carved finials. Sundial dated 1721 at centre of second floor possibly resited. Interior shows very strong first floor on corbels; king-post roof with arched tie beam. Source: McCombie "The Buildings of Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne" Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series XIII. LISTED GRADE 1

Easting:
425360

Northing:
564000

Grid Reference:
NZ425360564000

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 21/128