6 to 30a Nun Street
6 to 30a Nun Street
HER Number
8948
District
Newcastle
Site Name
6 to 30a Nun Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Shop
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Includes right return of No. 93 Grainger Street and left return of No. 45 Clayton
Street. Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1835, probably by John
Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys,
31 bays. Ground-floor shops altered. Entrance to Nun's Lane to right of No.18.
Projecting end bays have architraves to sash windows, those on first floor with
pediments; 2 bays projecting slightly at each end of 7-bay central section have
architraves to sashes, those on first floor with cornices. Other windows sashes
in plain reveals; paired brackets to moulded sills of all second-floor windows.
Second-floor band to plain sections. Second-floor entablature, with blocking
course above pavilions. LISTED GRADE 2
Street. Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1835, probably by John
Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys,
31 bays. Ground-floor shops altered. Entrance to Nun's Lane to right of No.18.
Projecting end bays have architraves to sash windows, those on first floor with
pediments; 2 bays projecting slightly at each end of 7-bay central section have
architraves to sashes, those on first floor with cornices. Other windows sashes
in plain reveals; paired brackets to moulded sills of all second-floor windows.
Second-floor band to plain sections. Second-floor entablature, with blocking
course above pavilions. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424670
Northing
564240
Grid Reference
NZ424670564240
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/433; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p.159; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 12