5 Collingwood Street
5 Collingwood Street
HER Number
9159
District
Newcastle
Site Name
5 Collingwood Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Shop
Site Type: Specific
Chemists Shop
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Shop and offices. 1898 by J.W. Taylor for J.C. Eno. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Free Baroque style. 4 storeys and attics, 3 bays. Shop with curved glass to central set-back entrance; double door at left to house has overlight. High keystones to first-floor arcade with round-headed windows, with cartouches between, under serpentine cornice. Central second-floor window has Ionic pilasters and pediment; flat pilasters to windows in outer bays and on third floor. Prominent dentilled cornice. High broken pediment and obelisk finial to central round- headed dormer with flanking consoles. Mansard roof.' {1}.
J.C. Eno manufactured health salts. LISTED GRADE 2
'Shop and offices. 1898 by J.W. Taylor for J.C. Eno. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Free Baroque style. 4 storeys and attics, 3 bays. Shop with curved glass to central set-back entrance; double door at left to house has overlight. High keystones to first-floor arcade with round-headed windows, with cartouches between, under serpentine cornice. Central second-floor window has Ionic pilasters and pediment; flat pilasters to windows in outer bays and on third floor. Prominent dentilled cornice. High broken pediment and obelisk finial to central round- headed dormer with flanking consoles. Mansard roof.' {1}.
J.C. Eno manufactured health salts. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424906
Northing
563998
Grid Reference
NZ424906563998
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 20/203 and 23/203; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 161; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1355231