24 Front Street

24 Front Street

HER Number
8223
District
Gateshead
Site Name
24 Front Street
Place
Winlaton
Map Sheet
NZ16SE
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
House and shop. Late C18 house with late C19 shop front. Painted
incised render; wooden shop front; stone-coped steeply-pitched roof of
Welsh slate. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Shop in first 2 bays has 2-light
arcaded windows and wide elliptical arch over recessed entrance. Acanthus-
leaf capitals to 4 slender pilasters flanking entrance; fruit decoration
to brackets above entrance, supporting cornice; leaf-decorated brackets
at either end support lion-mask stops to cornice. Half-glazed double
door. House has 2 sashes above shop, boarded door in bay no. 3, sashes in
bay no. 4, the lower in blocked-in wider opening. All sills painted and
projecting slightly, all lintels painted and splayed. One corniced end
brick chimney at right. Interior shows C18 boarded door at rear of shop.
Flight of stone steps to cellar which has blocked-up door to ground level
at rear. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
417650
Northing
562290
Grid Reference
NZ417650562290
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 4/13 (address used to read No. 4. This was amended)