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Northern Goldsmiths

A Grade II Listed Building in Westgate, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9703 / 54°58'13"N

Longitude: -1.6194 / 1°37'9"W

OS Eastings: 424461

OS Northings: 564029

OS Grid: NZ244640

Mapcode National: GBR SNF.BD

Mapcode Global: WHC3R.3B3K

Plus Code: 9C6WX9CJ+46

Entry Name: Northern Goldsmiths

Listing Date: 19 June 2000

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1380580

English Heritage Legacy ID: 480887

Also known as: 85-89 Westgate Road

ID on this website: 101380580

Location: Newcastle Helix, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1

County: Newcastle upon Tyne

Electoral Ward/Division: Westgate

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Newcastle upon Tyne

Traditional County: Northumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear

Church of England Parish: Newcastle St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Newcastle

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Description


NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ 2464 SW WESTGATE ROAD
1833/19/10104 (South side)
19-JUN-00 85-89
Northern Goldsmiths

GV II

Goldsmith's shop, warehouse and office. c1910, clock added c1932, shopfront remodelled c1960.
Ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Four storey plus attics. Baroque Revival style. Corner site.
Ground floor has shopfront c1960 with to left another shopfront c1980 and beyond original entrance doorway to offices above with double panel doors in fluted marble suround. First floor has blocked window on canted corner with projecting gilded square clock topped with a gilded female figure added c1932. Above single cross casement with attenuated keystone, another window above, both in round headed ashlar surround. Attic has small pair of windows. Hexagonal corner cupola has open facades with boldly rusticated Doric columns, each corner has square corbelled pilaster rising to square Ionic column. Cupola topped with copper dome.
North front has 3 window centre flanked by single windows. Centre has 3 casements in rusticated surrounds with attenuated keystones rising to cill band above. Both floors of upper windows recessed between Ionic half-columns, supporting ornate entablature. 3 small cross casements the lower ones with segment arched heads and elongated keystones. Attic has single central window with moulded ashlar surround topped with segmental hood. Single window end bay has first floor window with moulded ashlar surround, upper windows incorporated in single moulded ashlar surround with carved panel between. Attic has pair of windows with bold mullion between rising into curved ashlar hood supported on brackets.
South-east front has similar two window facade.


Listing NGR: NZ2446164029

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