Eldon Place, Claremont Buildings
Eldon Place, Claremont Buildings
HER Number
8996
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Eldon Place, Claremont Buildings
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26NW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Shop
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Shops and offices, now University Chaplaincy. Dated 1896 by W. Hope for Fairless
Harrison, tanner; 1905 additions. Steel frame and sandstone ashlar; graduated
slate roof with copper dome to turret. 3 storeys and attic, 6 irregular bays.
Pilasters, Doric Order on ground floor and Composite on first, define 4 right bays
with shop windows on ground floor and similar windows on first. 2 left bays have
office entrance at right under segmental canopy; altered ground floor to these and
to third bay. Sash windows elsewhere, those on second floor grouped, in panelled
pilasters under segmental pediments. Right corner entrance to shop under corbelled
turret. Gabled dormers over 2 left bays and 3 right, linked by pierced parapet,
have raised shaped pediments and ball finials. Tall ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Harrison, tanner; 1905 additions. Steel frame and sandstone ashlar; graduated
slate roof with copper dome to turret. 3 storeys and attic, 6 irregular bays.
Pilasters, Doric Order on ground floor and Composite on first, define 4 right bays
with shop windows on ground floor and similar windows on first. 2 left bays have
office entrance at right under segmental canopy; altered ground floor to these and
to third bay. Sash windows elsewhere, those on second floor grouped, in panelled
pilasters under segmental pediments. Right corner entrance to shop under corbelled
turret. Gabled dormers over 2 left bays and 3 right, linked by pierced parapet,
have raised shaped pediments and ball finials. Tall ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424860
Northing
565040
Grid Reference
NZ424860565040
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 14/220; Vindomora Solutions, 2021, Claremont Buildings, Eldon Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear Archaeological Building Recording supplemental. Project 374-21-HBR