54 Cloth Market, Beehive Hotel
54 Cloth Market, Beehive Hotel
HER Number
8866
District
Newcastle
Site Name
54 Cloth Market, Beehive Hotel
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Eating and Drinking Establishment
Site Type: Specific
Public House
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Public house. 1902 by J. Oswald and Sons. Faience ground floor; brick with
ashlar dressings above; roof of plain tiles with copper dome. 4 storeys, one
bay to Cloth Market x 3 to High Bridge on left return. 6-panelled door at right
under triglyph frieze; similar door in left canted corner. Green and yellow
ground floor has panelled and garlanded Ionic pilasters supporting entablature
with leaf-bracketed frieze; original BEEHIVE HOTEL in low relief on fascia
beneath prominent cornice. Upper floors have ovolo-moulded stone mullioned-and-
transomed windows, with first-and second-floor cornices; sash window on third
floor under wide eaves. Canted corner has blank first floor with wrought iron
brackets holding renewed hanging sign; second-floor sash. Consoles to slightly-
projecting top window. Pilastered angle turret has open arches under roundels
and frieze; ogee dome has four very small lucarnes, with slender swept pyramid
roofs, and tall spike finial. LISTED GRADE 2
ashlar dressings above; roof of plain tiles with copper dome. 4 storeys, one
bay to Cloth Market x 3 to High Bridge on left return. 6-panelled door at right
under triglyph frieze; similar door in left canted corner. Green and yellow
ground floor has panelled and garlanded Ionic pilasters supporting entablature
with leaf-bracketed frieze; original BEEHIVE HOTEL in low relief on fascia
beneath prominent cornice. Upper floors have ovolo-moulded stone mullioned-and-
transomed windows, with first-and second-floor cornices; sash window on third
floor under wide eaves. Canted corner has blank first floor with wrought iron
brackets holding renewed hanging sign; second-floor sash. Consoles to slightly-
projecting top window. Pilastered angle turret has open arches under roundels
and frieze; ogee dome has four very small lucarnes, with slender swept pyramid
roofs, and tall spike finial. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424860
Northing
564130
Grid Reference
NZ424860564130
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/198; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 22 and 140; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 21; Pearson, Lynn F, 1989, The Northumbrian Pub - an architectural history, 23-26