2 to 6 Nelson Street

HER Number:
8772

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
2 to 6 Nelson Street

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Shop

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shops and houses, now shops. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, with 4 at right; 8 bays. Ground floor altered. 2 right bays of 4 storeys have architraves to windows on tipper floors, with frieze and cornice above first-floor windows and bracketed sills to second floor, under entablature with prominent bracketed cornice. Top floor has sashes in plain reveals under cornice and blocking course. 6 recessed bays at left have first-floor aproned sills, second-floor sill string all sashes in plain reveals, some with glazing bars. First floor band to these bays; top cornice and blocking course. Later wrought iron gate in first bay. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
424810

Northing:
564370

Grid Reference:
NZ424810564370

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/400