21, Mosley Street

NZ 2564 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE MOSLEY STREET (north side) 21/388 No. 21. G.V. II Offices, now restaurant. 1906 by Fred T. Walker for The Edinburgh Life Assurance Co. Red granite ground floor; ashlar above; roof not visible. Classical framework with diverse details. 5 storeys and attic; 3 bays, the central wider and with tripartite windows. Banded ground and first floors, the former having 2 large openings, segmental and round-arched, and a round-headed doorway with weighty bracketed hood. Coved ground-floor cornice. Wide band above first floor serves as base for Corinthian Order through second and third floors, with 4 engaged columns. Quasi-classical window treatment with pediments on second floor. Deep modillioned cornice. Top storey has deeply-recessed windows and is surmounted by a central attic in the form of an Egyptian temple with flanking balustrades. Rear left entrance in No. 10 Grey Street (q.v.).

Listing NGR: NZ2504664122