14-20, Great North Road

A terrace of five houses, now offices, dating to around 1830, stands on the Great North Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. The houses are built of English bond brick with a painted ashlar basement and dressings, and feature a cast iron balcony. They have a Welsh slate roof. The terrace comprises three storeys and a basement. The arrangement is six bays wide to number 20, three bays wide to the others, with a set-back entrance bay to the right of number 14. The end three bays project slightly. The front door to number 16 retains 8 panels, while the doors to the other houses have been altered or renewed, each with an overlight within an architrave. The ground floor windows of the three end bays have recessed apron panels within long architraves; the central house has full-height windows. Stone sills project from the intermediate windows on the ground floor and from all windows on the second floor. The first-floor windows extend down to floor level, each with a wedge stone lintel. Most windows are sash windows with glazing bars. A blind window is present in the top floor of number 14. A first-floor band runs across the facade, with an anthemion-patterned balcony to numbers 14 to 18. The low-pitched roof has ashlar-corniced ridge chimneys.