Tyne and Wear HER(8701): Newcastle, Westgate Road, No. 56, County Court - Details
8701
Newcastle
Newcastle, Westgate Road, No. 56, County Court
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Civil
Law Court
County Court
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
County Court building. Dated 1864.
Sandstone ashlar with rusticated quoins to upper floors; dark slate roof. Classical
style. 3 storeys, 5 bays and archway at left. Steps up to double door under fanlight
in right bay; Rusticated ground floor forming voussoirs to end doors, 4 round-headed
windows and left archway. Masks on arch keys. Margined sash windows, shallow seg-
mental-headed on first floor, and square-headed on second, those on upper floors
in architraves which are lugged and keyed on first and have bracketed sills on
second floors. Ground-floor entablature with dentilled cornice; second-floor sill
band and lintel string which supports brackets to top cornice. Low-pitched hipped
roof has tall ashlar chimneys with bracketed cornices. Royal Arms on blocking course
above left archway; ground-floor frieze inscribed COUNTY COURT 1864.
4 square piers flank carriage entrance at left aid pedestrian entrance at right;
flat-coped swarf wall between supports spear-headed wrought iron railings and gates. LISTED GRADE 2
2462
6403
NZ24626403
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/570; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 152