80 to 86 Elswick Road

80 to 86 Elswick Road

HER Number
9182
District
Newcastle
Site Name
80 to 86 Elswick Road
Place
Elswick
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Houses, now offices. Circa 1840. English garden wall bond brick with painted
ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof. Basement and 3 storeys, 10 bays;
and left wing of 2 storeys, 6 bays. Wider, projecting right bay. Blocked basement
openings; wedge stone lintels to sashes with late C19 glazing bars on ground and
first floors, original sashes on second floor with projecting stone sills. Ground
floor sill band; first floor aprons and sill band. Roof, hipped at right, has 4
ashlar-corniced brick chimneys. Right return has steps up to wide door and over-
light in architrave. Left wing has paired hardboard-covered doors with overlights
in architraves; wedge stone lintels to sashes, some with margin lights; ground
floor projecting stone sills; first floor sill and eaves bands; gutter cornice.
Roof has 2 segmental-headed dormers with renewed glazing; 2 ridge chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
423500
Northing
563970
Grid Reference
NZ423500563970
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/226; AB Heritage, 2018, Liberty Court, 80-88 Elswick Road, Newcastle - Building Recording