Cathedral Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Shops, offices. 4 related planning applications.

Cathedral Buildings

WRENN ID
sacred-shingle-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Shops, offices
Source
Historic England listing

Description

NZ 2564 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE DEAN STREET (west side)

21/213 Cathedral Buildings

G.V. II

Shops and offices, now including restaurant. Dated cartouche 1901, by Oliver, Leeson and Wood. Cast iron ground floor columns; 3 floors of brick with ashlar ornament; rendered attic storey and attics; iron balcony. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Free Jacobean style. 5 storeys (with mezzanine to 3 left bays), attic storey and gable dormers. 7 bays. Mezzanine provides extra height needed on steep slope. Slightly-projecting central bay has double door recessed in tetrastyle porch, below heavy corbels of 5-storey shallow canted oriel with sashes in architraves. Elaborate Ionic columns between shops. Plain Ionic mezzanine under 3 similar bays with pilasters. Cartouches between floors. Attic storey has balcony on large brackets; triple sashes and central round-headed window under drip cornice; paired sashes in 7 gables above. Steeply pitched roofs. Rear has free Baroque doorcase with large oculus above. Drip mould over has large sculptured hare finial. Included for group value with Cathedral.

Listing NGR: NZ2504764044

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