Tyne and Wear HER(8919): 2 and 4 Mosley Street - Details
8919
Newcastle
2 and 4 Mosley Street
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Commercial
Commercial Office
Commercial Office
20TH CENTURY
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Extant Building
Bank, now offices. 1908 by Newcombe and Newcombe for Alliance Assurance Co. Ltd.
Sandstone ashlar with pink granite plinth and porch. Roof not visible.
Palladian style. 3 storeys, 5 bays and 3-bay curved left entrance section. High
ground floor with plinth, deeper at right on slope, containing right end door with
overlight in architrave; left corner entrance, of Tuscan columns flanked by narrow
windows, holds recessed double door, and overlight with radiating glazing bars, under
swagged frieze and cornice. Above this, giant Ionic Order containing pedimented
first-floor window and second-floor window in lugged architrave. Elevation to
Mosley Street has tall round-headed ground-floor windows, pediments to those on
first floor except in the outer bays which have swagged segmental-headed surrounds;
lugged architraves on second floor. Deep modillioned cornice. Tall, corniced,
ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
425080
564110
NZ425080564110
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 21/391; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 149