102 Grey Street (Lloyd's Bank)

HER Number

9258

District

Newcastle

Site Name

102 Grey Street (Lloyd's Bank)

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Bank (Financial)

Site Type: Specific

Bank (Financial)

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Includes Nos. 2-6 Hood Street and Nos. 12-18 Market Street. Houses and bank, now bank. Circa 1839 for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar, Welsh slate roof. Classical style. 4 storeys, 9 bays. Steps up to central renewed door and fanlight in recessed centre. Round-headed ground floor windows with pilasters and archivolts. Bays defined by wide flat Tuscan pilasters supporting entablature with carved wreath on frieze. Giant Corinthian columns above, fluted columns in centre. All windows sahes with glazing bars. Tall ashlar-corniced chimneys. Whole interior redeveloped behind street façade. LISTED GRADE 2*

Easting

424910

Northing

564350

Grid Reference

NZ424910564350

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/297; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 166; David Lovie, 1997, The Buildings of Grainger Town, p 7