Tyne and Wear HER(8802): 104 - 108 Grey Street (Waterstones) - Details
8802
Newcastle
104 - 108 Grey Street (Waterstones)
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Shop
Shop
20TH CENTURY
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Extant Building
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
424904
564395
NZ424904564395
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