Tyne and Wear HER(8870): Newcastle, Blackett Street, Nos. 29, 31, 33 (Eldon Buildings) - Details
8870
Newcastle
Newcastle, Blackett Street, Nos. 29, 31, 33 (Eldon Buildings)
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Hotel
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Hotel, now shops. Includes No. 118 Grey Street. Dated 1893 on top panels; by
Oliver and Leeson. Circa 1982 ground-floor alterations. Sandstone ashlar; dark
slate roof. Curved corner site to Grey Street. 4 storeys, 8 bays, the 2 at
left end and that at right end wider. Hotel entrance in wide right bay.
Ground floor entablature has bracketed cornice supporting first floor balconies
(removed from 2 left end bays). Giant Composite Order to first and second floors;
Venetian windows in wide bays of first floor, round-headed windows in 5 bays
of curve, with ornamental glazing bars in heads under keyed arches. Second-floor
sashes in architraves under entablature with prominent modillioned cornice.
Plain top sashes with fluted band between heads of windows. Top cornice and
parapet with 3 carved panels: 18 F/M 93 on bays flanking curve and ELDON
BUILDINGS at centre, in Art Nouveau lettering, under alternate pediments.
High-relief coat of arms in central pediment. LISTED GRADE 2
2489
6443
NZ24896443
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/113; Grace McCombie, 2009, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Newcastle and Gateshead, p 185; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume One - The Central Area, p 26