1 to 10 Winchester Terrace

1 to 10 Winchester Terrace

HER Number
9217
District
Newcastle
Site Name
1 to 10 Winchester Terrace
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Terrace of houses. Circa 1860. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar basement
and dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 builds: Nos. 1-7 at left; Nos. 8-10 at right
slightly earlier. Basements to most; 3 storeys to No. 1; 2 storeys to other houses;
attics to Nos. 2-9; 3-5 bays. Channelled rustication to basements of second build
at left; ashlar plinth at right. 4-panelled doors and overlights in raised stone
surrounds with bracketed canopies; Aproned sashes, plate glass to Nos. 1-7, mostly
margined to Nos. 8-10, in architraves on ground floor and under wedge stone lintels
on upper floors. Floor bands; gutter cornices. Roofs, low pitched to earlier build,
have pedimented dormers to second build, some dormers to first; brick chimneys, some
ashlar-corniced. Cast iron balconies to Nos. 2-7. Nosed steps to doors, with cast
iron balustrades and handrails to Nos. 1-7 and to No. l0. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
423850
Northing
564040
Grid Reference
NZ423850564040
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 18/609; Newcastle City Council, 2001, Summerhill Conservation Area Character Statement, p 20