20 to 34 Clayton Street

HER Number:
9154

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
20 to 34 Clayton Street

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Terrace

Site Type: Specific:
Terrace

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Houses, now shops and offices, and public house. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; painted brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. Main elevation 4 storeys, 7 and 9 bays. Ground floor C20 shops. Upper floors have sashes, some with glazing bars, in plain reveals those on second floor have aprons and slightly- projecting sills. Prominent second-floor cornice; top cornice. Roof not visible. Left return has 3 right bays in same style as front elevation. 3 left bays of painted brick have c.1900 ground floor, with recessed 6-panel doors under pediments and large overlights, flanking wide plate-glass window curved towards doors. Upper floors have sashes with glazing bars under wedge stone lintels; second-floor projecting sills, first-floor sill band; eaves band. Roof has left gable coping. 20 to 26 redeveloped behind facade. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
424640

Northing:
564240

Grid Reference:
NZ424640564240

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/171