Tyne and Wear HER(8724): 1-8 Summerhill Grove - Details
8724
Newcastle
1-8 Summerhill Grove
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Domestic
House
Semi Detached House
POST MEDIEVAL
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Extant Building
4 pairs of semi-detached houses. Circa 1830. English garden wall bond brick with
ashlar basement and dressings; Welsh slate roofs. 3 storeys, with some attics; 2
bays to each house. Steps up to doors at left of each pair; 6-panelled doors and
overlights recessed in panelled reveals of flat Tuscan doorcases. Wedge stone
lintels to sashes, with glazing bars in those of Nos. 1, 2 and 7, margined to Nos.
3 and 4, plain to Nos. 5 and 8. Canted bays to basement and ground floor of No. 8,
ground and first floor of No. 5. Renewed glazing to No. 6. Projecting stone sills
to ground-and second-floor windows. Bands at first floor and first floor sills.
Hipped roofs have ashlar-bonded brick chimneys. Spear-headed area railings, and plain
handrails to steps. LISTED GRADE 2
423970
563980
NZ423970563980
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/537 and 22/537; Newcastle City Council, 2001, Summerhill Conservation Area Character Statement, p 19