8 and 10 The Close (Quayside Studios)

HER Number:
9002

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
8 and 10 The Close (Quayside Studios)

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Shop

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shops and houses, now offices. Circa 1830. Incised stucco with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 8 bays. Reeded Tuscan pilasters and entablature frame ground-floor shops. Upper floors have plain sashes in architraves, pedimented on first floor and each with pulvinated frieze and cornice on second floor; second-floor bracketed sill string. Third floor windows have plain reveals. Top cornice and coped high parapet. Rendered ridge chimneys. 2 iron handrails attached to right return alongside Castle Stairs: round-section rails with downcurved ends, attached on iron brackets. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
425114

Northing:
563810

Grid Reference:
NZ425114563810

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/187; Tyne and Wear Museums, 2008, Mansion House Chambers, 8-10 The Close, Newcastle upon Tyne - Historic Buildings Recording