1 to 4 High Swinburne Place

1 to 4 High Swinburne Place

HER Number
9193
District
Newcastle
Site Name
1 to 4 High Swinburne Place
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
Terrace of houses. Circa 1820. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar basement
and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Basement, 3 storeys and
attics; 3 bays to each house; entrance to No.4 in left return. Steps up to doors,
6-panelled with fanlights; glazing bars to those of Nos. 1 and 3. Doorcases of
open pediments on panelled pilasters; No.2 doorcase lost, and renewed glazing bars
to fanlight. Wedge stone lintels to sashes,with glazing bars; French windows on
first floor of No.3 opening on to full-width cast iron balcony; ground floor sill
band; similar band to first floor of Nos. 1 and 4; first floor band to Nos. 2 and
3. Projecting stone sills on top floor. Gutter cornice. Dormers:gabled at left
to No.4; segmental to Nos. 3 and 1; paired square-headed to No.2. Brick ridge
chimneys. Left return has step up to 6-panelled door flanked by moulded pilasters
under wide fanlight with radial glazing, under elliptical brick arch. Tall stair
window above has 3 sashes with glazing bars, and patterned round head. 2 attic
sashes have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Inserted narrow door
at right. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
423980
Northing
564110
Grid Reference
NZ423980564110
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 18/308 and 19/308