9 to 17 Market Street
9 to 17 Market Street
HER Number
8926
District
Newcastle
Site Name
9 to 17 Market Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Eating and Drinking Establishment
Site Type: Specific
Restaurant
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Nos. 9 to 17 odd (Theatre
Royal lounge and restaur-
ant; The Royal P.H.).
G.V. I
Shops and houses, now public house and restaurant. Circa 1837 by Benjamin Green
for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 7 bays in
all. Ground floor has rusticated pilasters and entablature; altered windows under
cornices. Upper floors have flat Roman Doric pilasters to third and fourth bays;
sash windows, most with glazing bars. Second-floor windows have moulded sills;
second-floor entablature with prominent cornice. Top-floor windows in plain
reveals under eaves band and cornice. Right return of the Royal P.H. is part of
the composition of the Grey Street elevation of the Theatre Royal (No.98) (q.v.).
Graded for group value. LISTED GRADE 1
Royal lounge and restaur-
ant; The Royal P.H.).
G.V. I
Shops and houses, now public house and restaurant. Circa 1837 by Benjamin Green
for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 7 bays in
all. Ground floor has rusticated pilasters and entablature; altered windows under
cornices. Upper floors have flat Roman Doric pilasters to third and fourth bays;
sash windows, most with glazing bars. Second-floor windows have moulded sills;
second-floor entablature with prominent cornice. Top-floor windows in plain
reveals under eaves band and cornice. Right return of the Royal P.H. is part of
the composition of the Grey Street elevation of the Theatre Royal (No.98) (q.v.).
Graded for group value. LISTED GRADE 1
Easting
424930
Northing
564320
Grid Reference
NZ424930564320
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/376; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 26