34-44 Pilgrim Street

34-44 Pilgrim Street

HER Number
9125
District
Newcastle
Site Name
34-44 Pilgrim Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shopping Parade
Site Type: Specific
Shopping Parade
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
4 shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1837 for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 5 storeys, 7 bays in all, the outer ones in pavilions. House entrance in deep reveal at left of second shop. Shops renewed but third shop retains original wide defining pilasters. Giant flat paired Tuscan pilasters define pavilions containing first floor windows in aedicules and second-floor windows in architraves, both tripartite in the right pavilion. Central 5 bays have window architraves on these floors, with raised cornices to alternate first-floor windows; second-floor entablature has prominent cornice. Third-floor windows in plain reveals, with pilasters to pavilions. All windows sashes, most with glazing bars, except central blind bay.
Eaves cornice. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424980
Northing
564320
Grid Reference
NZ424980564320
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/446; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 142