1-8 Summerhill Grove

1-8 Summerhill Grove

HER Number
8724
District
Newcastle
Site Name
1-8 Summerhill Grove
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
Semi Detached House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
4 pairs of semi-detached houses. Circa 1830. English garden wall bond brick with
ashlar basement and dressings; Welsh slate roofs. 3 storeys, with some attics; 2
bays to each house. Steps up to doors at left of each pair; 6-panelled doors and
overlights recessed in panelled reveals of flat Tuscan doorcases. Wedge stone
lintels to sashes, with glazing bars in those of Nos. 1, 2 and 7, margined to Nos.
3 and 4, plain to Nos. 5 and 8. Canted bays to basement and ground floor of No. 8,
ground and first floor of No. 5. Renewed glazing to No. 6. Projecting stone sills
to ground-and second-floor windows. Bands at first floor and first floor sills.
Hipped roofs have ashlar-bonded brick chimneys. Spear-headed area railings, and plain
handrails to steps. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
423970
Northing
563980
Grid Reference
NZ423970563980
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 11/537 and 22/537; Newcastle City Council, 2001, Summerhill Conservation Area Character Statement, p 19