Carliol House

NZ 2464 SE and NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE MARKET STREET EAST NZ 2564 SW (north side) 20/378 and 21/378 Carliol House G.V. II Offices. Dated 1924-8 on corner at top. By Tait Burnet and Lorne, with L. J. Couves and Partners for North Eastern Electric Supply Co. Portland stone with granite and Frosterley marble doorcase; lead corner turret roof. 7 storeys, 28 bays and left 3-bay rounded corner. Central 4 bays contain steps up to 3 double doors, flanked by fat adapted Greek Doric columns; fluted architrave and dentilled coved surround enclose doorway and flanking windows, with grey granite blocks below windows. Panel above door on guttae -like brackets has low relief CARLIOL HOUSE. Projection rises from ground floor to enclose these 4 bays on first floor, which has prominent block lintels and shallow triangular-section pilasters between windows and rising into next floor. First floor windows have similar style surrounds; vertical recessed panels contain windows of 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors, beneath cornice; smaller 5th-floor windows below deep dentilled cornice; plainer top floor windows and cornice. Ground floor left corner has shop window inserted in entrance; 2 other renewed shop windows. Bronze plaque to right of main entrance gives origin of name - Carliol Croft, which was open ground within the walls of Newcastle. Bronze plaque on left return to Pilgrim Street: 1931, signed Richard A. Ray A.R.C.A., low relief portrait of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, D.S.E. F.R.S. 'INVENTOR OF THE INCANDESCANT LAMP AND A PIONEER IN THE SCIENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY. 1813-1914. ERECTED BY NORTH EASTERN ELECTRICITY SUPPLY CO. IN RECOGNITION OF THE GREAT SERVICE WHICH SIR JOSEPH RENDERED TO THE ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY'.

Listing NGR: NZ2504964399