Description

NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ST. NICHOLAS' SQUARE
(east side)
20/396
12.11.65 Newcastle and Gateshead
Building Society (formerly
listed as Nos. 40, 42, 44
Mosley Street)
GV II
Bank; circa 1845 by Benjamin Green for Newcastle Joint Stock Bank. Sandstone ashlar;
Welsh slate roof. Palazzo style. 4 storeys, 5 bays. Central double door and overlight
in rusticated ground floor with voussoirs to 5 arched openings, those to left of door
covered by C20 fascia; round-headed windows in those at right, plain at left. First
floor has panelled pilasters defining bays containing round-headed windows in keyed
arched surrounds; wide moulded brackets support 3-bay second-floor balcony. Giant
Ionic Order through second and third floors. Pulvinated friezes and pediments to 2nd
floor windows, bracketed architraves to third. Entablature with dentilled and
modillioned cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof has 3 conjoined ashlar chimneys.

Listing NGR: NZ2497964041

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275627

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)