8 Bigg Market

HER Number:
9086

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
8 Bigg Market

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
House

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
House; now offices and shop.C18; C20 shop. Incised render; Welsh slate roof, 4 storeys, 3 bays. Door at right to upper floors. Wide-boxed sashes, those on third floor with glazing bars, have painted lintels carved as if alternately- raised voussoirs; slightly-projecting painted stone sills to second and third floors; central third floor blind. Quoin strips. Tumbled-in brickwork on right return gable. Front right end chimney. Interior shows open-well stair with ramped grip handrail from first floor, with fat turned balusters. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
424830

Northing:
564150

Grid Reference:
NZ424830564150

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/105; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 140