Tyne and Wear HER(9102): Newcastle, Ellison Place, Nos. 1 to 5 - Details
9102
Newcastle
Newcastle, Ellison Place, Nos. 1 to 5
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Domestic
Multiple Dwelling
Terrace
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Terrace of houses, now Polytechnic buildings, offices and surgery. Circa 1810.
English bond brick with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roofs.
5 houses of 3 storeys and attics, from 5 to 3 bays. Nos. one and 2 have central
ashlar porches an classical style, that to No. one having arch, pilasters and
cornice and blocking course; No.2 has pilasters and open segmental pediment with
cornice and blocking course 6-panelled doors, double in porches, under fanlights;
doorcases to Nos. 3 and 4 have fluted necking and dentilled pediments; doorcase
removed from No. 5. Renewed sashes with wedge stone lintels; projecting stone
sills to second floor, sill bands to ground and first floors. Porch of No.1 has
plaque inscribed 'Matthew White Esq., Mayor/Joseph Atkinson Esq., Sheriffe/1692.
Interior of No.1 has Venetian stair landing window in Ionic case with arms of
Newcastle in glass. Historical note: No. one was the Mansion House of Newcastle
in the C19. No. 5 was the home of William Boutland Wilkinson, an early patentee
of reinforced concrete in the modern sense. Sources: J.M. Brown Transactions of
the Newcomen Society XXXIX; W.F. Cassie 'Early Reinforced Concrete in Newcastle
upon Tyne' Structural Engineer April 1955. LISTED GRADE 2
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Department of National Heritage, 1987, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 17/224; Grace McCombie, 2009, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Newcastle and Gateshead, p 190; J.M. Brown Transactions of
the Newcomen Society XXXIX; W.F. Cassie 'Early Reinforced Concrete in Newcastle
upon Tyne' Structural Engineer April 1955; English Heritage, 2013, List Entry Number 1320379