Akenside House is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Office. 5 related planning applications.
Akenside House
- WRENN ID
- blind-tallow-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NX 2563 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AKENSIDE HILL
24/72 No. 5. (Akenside House)
G.V. II
Offices. Dated 1902. Polished dark granite ground floor; sandstone ashlar above. Dark slate roof with copper dome. 5 storeys and attics. Deeply-projecting eaves cornice. End bays have rusticated pilasters and shallow canted 3-storey bay windows. Centre 5 bays form a shallow bow. First-floor horizontally rusticated with carved date panel above centre window. Second floor has pediments over 3 central windows with elaborate keystones. 2 cartouches surrounded by wreaths, fasces, swags and other ornament between third and fourth floors. Prominent eaves cornice to central 5 bays flanked by oeuil-de-boeuf windows with cornices over and consoles either side. Mansard roof has central octagonal lantern with copper dome.
Listing NGR: NZ2519163934
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