104 - 108 Grey Street (Waterstones)

HER Number:
8802

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
104 - 108 Grey Street (Waterstones)

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Shop

Site Type: Specific:
Shop

General Period:
20TH CENTURY

Specific Period:
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Includes No.1 Hood Street (q.v.). Shop. 1902-4 by W.H. Knowles and T. and R. Milburn. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 5 bays and 3 to Hood Street on right return. Giant Corinthian order to top 3 storeys, three-quarter columns in centre of Grey Street elevation and pilasters elsewhere, with full entablature with bracketed cornice. Good Edwardian shop front intact on ground floor. First floor has tripartite window in centre bays, the centre lights flanked by low columns and pedimented; windows have keystones and cornices. Second floor windows have scrolled pediments or shaped cornices of High Roman Baroque type, taken from Rossi's Studio d'Architectura Civile. Third-floor windows in architraves. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
424904

Northing:
564395

Grid Reference:
NZ424904564395

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/298; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 166; David Lovie, 1997, The Buildings of Grainger Town, p 6