Tyne and Wear HER(9176): Newcastle, Collingwood Street, Nos. 23 to 29 (Sun Insurance) - Details
9176
Newcastle
Newcastle, Collingwood Street, Nos. 23 to 29 (Sun Insurance)
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Building
Office
Modern
C20
Extant Building
Offices. 1902-4 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood for Sun Insurance Co. Sandstone ashlar
with granite plinth and door surrounds. Copper roof. Free style. 6 storeys, 5 bays
and 3-bay cimved right corner. Central double door in bolection-moulded
architrave with coved rusticated stone surround to that and to fanlight; rusticated
ground floor. Prominent brackets above door support balcony to window in segmental-
pedimented Ionic aedicule with carved sun. Architraves to all windows; bracketed
pediments to those in outer first - floor bays, and cornices on second floor.
Prominent modillioned top cornice. Curved corner has high plinth with cushion
rustication and guilloche band; door in central bay has fluted architrave under
oeil-de-boeuf flanked by large Atlantes, on brackets with much leaf and flower
carving, which support first-floor balcony. Balconies have wrought-iron sun
motif. Right return to Westgate Road continues plinth and has giant Corinthian
pilasters to segmental pediment containing large sunburst. Copper-covered blocking
course ornamented with repeated S. Roof curved over corner bay. LISTED GRADE 2
2484
6395
NZ24846395
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 23/206; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 104; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 21 and 161