Alderman Fenwick'S House

Alderman Fenwick's House is a Grade I listed building located on Pilgrim Street in Newcastle upon Tyne. This house, which later became an inn and subsequently a Liberal Club, was constructed in the third quarter of the 17th century with alterations made in the 18th century. It is built of English garden wall bond brick with moulded brick strings and features a renewed pantiled roof. The structure has a basement and four storeys, with six bays, where the outer bays project.

The facade includes a double door in the third bay, which is sheltered by a pedimented hood supported by slender posts. Chamfered rusticated columns hold up the upper floors of the projections, with the right projection containing a carriage entrance that has a wooden lintel. The windows are topped with flat brick arches and there are deep floor strings. The ground floor features an entablature with a pulvinated frieze, and there is a renewed stone-coped parapet. The steeply-pitched front roof has a central split that provides access to a walk behind the parapet, which can be entered from a box at the rear above the staircase.

At the rear, the end bays are gabled and have dog-tooth strings. Inside, there is an open-well staircase with a wide grip handrail and fat turned balusters extending through all floors to the roof. The full-width first-floor room is panelled and has a strapwork stucco ceiling. The wood-mullioned two-light windows in the end gables are now blocked by adjacent buildings, and the roof trusses spring from the third-floor level. Alderman Fenwick's House is a rare example of a merchant's house in Newcastle, and the Fenwick family was significant in the town's commerce and government. Restoration was in progress at the time of the survey, and the windows were boarded up.