22 Newgate Street

House, now shop. Pre-1827 for Major Anderson; c.1900 shop with later alterations.
Ripple-dressed sandstone ashlar with tooled margins; Welsh slate roof, brick
chimney. Gothic style. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Pedimented shop fascia. Wide central
bay has 3 pointed-arched cusped lights to square-headed window with label string;
plainer window above with 3 lower pointed lights and dripmould. Narrow projecting
side bays have cusped lancets with dripmoulds under blind cross slits and shields,
that at left eroded and that at right the Anderson arms. First floor central sill
string. Roll-moulded parapet coping. Hipped roof with central chimney. Historical
note: this was the west boundary of the estate of the Anderson mansion in Pilgrim
Street; John Dobson prepared a scheme for the development of the estate for Major
Anderson. This house was described in 1827 as 'in an antique fashion'. Source:
E. Mackenzie History of Newcastle Newcastle 1827; pp.174, 199, 200. LISTED GRADE 2