14 to 20 Great North Road

Terrace of 5 houses, now offices. Circa 1830. English bond brick with painted
ashlar basement and dressings; cast iron balcony. Welsh slate roof. Basement
and 3 storeys; 6 bays to No. 20, 3 to other houses and set-back right entrance bay
to No. 14. End 3 bays project slightly. 8-panelled door to No.16, altered or
renewed doors to others, with overlights in architraves. Ground-floor windows
of 3 end bays have recessed apron panels in long architraves; central house has
full-length windows; projecting stone sills to intermediate windows on ground floor
and to all on second. First floor windows to floor level; wedge stone lintels.
All windows sashes, most with glazing bars. Blind windows top floor no. 14.
First flair band; anthemion-patterned balcony to Nos. 14-18. Low-pitched roof
has ashlar-corniced ridge chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2 The buildings were recorded in 2013 by The Archaeological Practice ahead of rennovation as student accomodation. The report concluded that the buildings were a good survival of a late Georgian, high status terrace. The internal features of the buildings became more consistent as building progressed from the southern end of Great North Road. All of the houses have dog-leg stairs with stick balusters and moulded handrails and originally with curtail steps. Almost all the fireplaces have been removed, partition walls inserted and many connecting doors knocked through party walls between what were originally separate properties. Features of note included a fireplace and range in the main kitchen of No.14 with a plate HENRY WALKER & SON, GALLOWGATE IRON WORKS, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.Also cornices, and cupboards with old panelled doors. No.20 contains the best plaster ceiling of the whole terrace, with Greek Key and Anthemion ornament.