Tyne and Wear HER(9136): 5 Akenside Hill (Akenside House) - Details
9136
Newcastle
5 Akenside Hill (Akenside House)
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Commercial
Commercial Office
Commercial Office
20TH CENTURY
Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966
Extant Building
Offices. Dated 1902. Polished dark granite ground floor; sandstone ashlar above.
Dark slate roof with copper dome.
5 storeys and attics. Deeply-projecting eaves cornice. End bays have rusticated
pilasters and shallow canted 3-storey bay windows. Centre 5 bays form a shallow
bow. First-floor horizontally rusticated with carved date panel above centre
window. Second floor has pediments over 3 central windows with elaborate keystones.
2 cartouches surrounded by wreaths, fasces, swags and other ornament between
third and fourth floors. Prominent eaves cornice to central 5 bays flanked by
oeuil-de-boeuf windows with cornices over and consoles either side. Mansard
roof has central octagonal lantern with copper dome. LISTED GRADE 2
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563930
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Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/72; National Monuments Record monument number 955059, building file BF064217