26 to 31 Sandhill

HER Number:
9117

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
26 to 31 Sandhill

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Shopping Parade

Site Type: Specific:
Shopping Parade

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shops and offices, now restaurant. c.1860. Incorporates No. 1, Side. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Curved corner site. Italianate style, 4 storeys and attics; 7 bays. Renewed ground floor shops have bays defined by flat Tuscan pilasters. Entrance in fourth narrow bay under single windows; tripartite windows in other bays, all plain sashes flanked by free Corinthian pilasters and under archivolts with keys. Bays defined by pilasters; cornices to each floor, the top 2 bracketed. 3 dormers, the central, above entrance, with paired sashes under keyed roundel in shaped gable, the outer round-headed. Roof balustrade has some sections missing at time of survey; building being restored. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
425180

Northing:
563890

Grid Reference:
NZ425180563890

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/504