Tyne and Wear HER(9002): Newcastle, The Close, Nos. 8 and 10 (Quayside Studios) - Details
9002
Newcastle
Newcastle, The Close, Nos. 8 and 10 (Quayside Studios)
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Commercial
Shop
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
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
25114
63810
NZ2511463810
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