1 Charlotte Square

HER Number:
9134

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
1 Charlotte Square

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
House

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
2 houses, now offices. 1770 by William Newton. English bond brick with rendered plinth and ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys and attics; 6 bays. Wide double door, 8-panelled leaves, in fourth bay. Doorcase of fluted pilasters, carved spandrels and prominent cornice. Round brick door arch in first bay blocked and window inserted. Wedge stone lintels to plain sashes, with projecting stone sills on ground and second floors; bands at first floor, first floor sills, and eaves. Later mansard roof has 6 bargeboarded dormers. 6 steps to door have cast iron handrails on acanthus-leaf balusters, that at right renewed. Interior shows some architraves; 2 Venetian stair windows at rear; the lower has Tuscan columns with fluted necking. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
424450

Northing:
564130

Grid Reference:
NZ424450564130

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 19/152