35, CLOSE

NZ 2563 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CLOSE (south side)

24/192 No. 35 (formerly listed 29/6/76 as premises occupied by Messrs. Doves) G.V. II*

House and warehouses. Possibly Cl6 and later. Render; sandstone; brick with some ashlar dressings; timber frame; renewed pantiled roofs with some Welsh slate. 3 ranges, the rear originally on river edge but now facing onto artificial fill, around courtyard with enclosing wall on street front. High wide rendered wall, containing boarded double vehicle doors, links 2 rendered gables; tripartite sashes in left gable, wood-mullioned openings at right. Rendered house at rear of yard: 2 builds; left of 2 storeys, 3 bays with wide doorway at left, sash with glazing bars in centre and tripartite sash at right; upper-floor sash in wide box and Venetian window with broad glazing bars. Right build of 2 higher storeys and 2 bays projects slightly and has 6-panelled door in wooden architrave with bracketed cornice. First floor 2-light casement and renewed sash. Left range, of stone and brick in 2 builds, has 2 storeys, 5 and 5 bays. First build, attached to house, has varied openings with segmental brick arches, vehicle entrance at left and boarded door and overlight at right. Some sashes; upper wood-mullioned openings. Second build has first-floor 4-panelled door and sash windows. Slate roof hipped to street. Right range of stone has 2 storeys and attics, 8 irregular bays. Irregular stone arch to boarded ground-floor entrance in second bay; blocked arch in fifth bay has chamfered elliptical head. Stone steps to boarded door under stone lintel in third bay. Stacks of loading doors, the top under gable, in bays 4 and 7; crane above that in bay 7. Wood mullions to square openings with flat stone lintels on first floor; roof has 3 segmental-headed dormers. Interior of left range, first build, has arched tie beam and king-post roof, the ridge set in one side of broadened posts.

Listing NGR: NZ2505663705