12 and 14 Dean Street
12 and 14 Dean Street
HER Number
8840
District
Newcastle
Site Name
12 and 14 Dean Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Warehouse
Site Type: Specific
Leather Warehouse
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Offices and warehouse, now restaurant. 1901 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood for John
Taylor and Co., leather and rubber manufacturers. Painted rusticated ashlar
ground floor with later shop front; steel frame above with wood pilasters and
mosaic panels; brick first bay tower and canted right corner. Jacobean style
treatment on steel frame. 4 storeys and attics, 8 bays. First bay tower contains
round-headed office entrance with voussoirs under oval window; narrow sashes in
architraves on upper floors; eaves cornice and oculus in tower above with parapet.
Central restaurant recessed in slender pilasters; slender quasi-Ionic pilasters
above frame 7 lights, sashes with glazing bars, on each floor, with strap-work
patterns in blue and yellow mosaic panels between floors. Eaves cornice. Hipped
roof has segmental-headed 3-light dormer. LISTED GRADE 2
Taylor and Co., leather and rubber manufacturers. Painted rusticated ashlar
ground floor with later shop front; steel frame above with wood pilasters and
mosaic panels; brick first bay tower and canted right corner. Jacobean style
treatment on steel frame. 4 storeys and attics, 8 bays. First bay tower contains
round-headed office entrance with voussoirs under oval window; narrow sashes in
architraves on upper floors; eaves cornice and oculus in tower above with parapet.
Central restaurant recessed in slender pilasters; slender quasi-Ionic pilasters
above frame 7 lights, sashes with glazing bars, on each floor, with strap-work
patterns in blue and yellow mosaic panels between floors. Eaves cornice. Hipped
roof has segmental-headed 3-light dormer. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425100
Northing
563990
Grid Reference
NZ425100563990
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 21/215 and 24/215; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 25 and 150