1 to 5 Ellison Place

Terrace of houses, now Polytechnic buildings, offices and surgery. Circa 1810.
English bond brick with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roofs.
5 houses of 3 storeys and attics, from 5 to 3 bays. Nos. one and 2 have central
ashlar porches an classical style, that to No. one having arch, pilasters and
cornice and blocking course; No.2 has pilasters and open segmental pediment with
cornice and blocking course 6-panelled doors, double in porches, under fanlights;
doorcases to Nos. 3 and 4 have fluted necking and dentilled pediments; doorcase
removed from No. 5. Renewed sashes with wedge stone lintels; projecting stone
sills to second floor, sill bands to ground and first floors. Porch of No.1 has
plaque inscribed 'Matthew White Esq., Mayor/Joseph Atkinson Esq., Sheriffe/1692.
Interior of No.1 has Venetian stair landing window in Ionic case with arms of
Newcastle in glass. Historical note: No. one was the Mansion House of Newcastle
in the C19. No. 5 was the home of William Boutland Wilkinson, an early patentee
of reinforced concrete in the modern sense. Sources: J.M. Brown Transactions of
the Newcomen Society XXXIX; W.F. Cassie 'Early Reinforced Concrete in Newcastle
upon Tyne' Structural Engineer April 1955. LISTED GRADE 2