Survey Data
Reg No
21837026
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1820 - 1850
Coordinates
127974, 133786
Date Recorded
20/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey former house, built c. 1830, having recent timber shopfront to front to front (west). Now in use as shop with accommodation to upper floors. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, tooled limestone eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods with cast-iron downpipe. Dressed snecked limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and red-brick block-and-start surrounds to first and second floors, having rubbed red brick voussoirs and uPVC casement windows. Recent timber shopfront having square-headed window openings having fixed timber-framed single-pane display windows. Square-headed door openings, having double-leaf glazed timber doors to shop entrance, single-leaf timber panelled door surmounted by single-pane overlight giving access to accommodation. Located fronting directly onto street.
Appraisal
This attractive former town house is an integral part of a long terrace of commercial and residential buildings located in the centre of Newcastle West. Its well executed red brick window surrounds creates a pleasing contrast against the dressed limestone fabric of the building.