Tyne and Wear HER(8952): Newcastle, Quayside, Nos. 15 to 23 (Mercantile Buildings) - Details
8952
Newcastle
Newcastle, Quayside, Nos. 15 to 23 (Mercantile Buildings)
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Building
Office
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Offices. 1883 by J. C. Parsons for Thomas Harper. Sandstone ashlar; roof of
Welsh slate. 3 storeys and attics, 7 bays. 3 internal steps up to central double
door in architrave; right end entrance to yard behind has round arch with voussoirs
and keystone. Architraves to all windows, sashes paired except in end and centre
bays. Deep cyma moulding to plinth between pilasters to ground floor sill band.
Upper floors have sill strings. Each floor has entablature, with frieze pulvinated
above windows, door and yard arch. Wreath carving on frieze above paired windows,
which have pediments to each pair, segmental on first floor, (except top floor
which has dentilled cornice breaking forward over windows, and small segmental
pediments). High panelled and coped roof parapet with end urn finials; 2 paired
dormers in entablature under carved pediments with cartouches. LISTED GRADE 2
2536
6389
NZ25366389
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/368; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 122