23 to 29 Collingwood Street (Sun Insurance)

23 to 29 Collingwood Street (Sun Insurance)

HER Number
9176
District
Newcastle
Site Name
23 to 29 Collingwood Street (Sun Insurance)
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Commercial Office
Site Type: Specific
Commercial Office
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Offices. 1902-4 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood for Sun Insurance Co. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door surrounds. Copper roof. Free style. 6 storeys, 5 bays and 3-bay cimved right corner. Central double door in bolection-moulded architrave with coved rusticated stone surround to that and to fanlight; rusticated ground floor. Prominent brackets above door support balcony to window in segmental- pedimented Ionic aedicule with carved sun. Architraves to all windows; bracketed pediments to those in outer first - floor bays, and cornices on second floor. Prominent modillioned top cornice. Curved corner has high plinth with cushion rustication and guilloche band; door in central bay has fluted architrave under oeil-de-boeuf flanked by large Atlantes, on brackets with much leaf and flower carving, which support first-floor balcony. Balconies have wrought-iron sun motif. Right return to Westgate Road continues plinth and has giant Corinthian pilasters to segmental pediment containing large sunburst. Copper-covered blocking course ornamented with repeated S. Roof curved over corner bay.'
In 2013 this is Saints Hairdressing, Hippo House and Prontaprint. Offices above. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424840
Northing
563950
Grid Reference
NZ424840563950
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 23/206; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 104; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 21 and 161; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1355250