6, 7 and 8, Higham Place

Three houses, now offices and a restaurant, were built between 1819 and 1820 by Richard Grainger for William Batson of Higham Dykes. The houses are located on the east side of Higham Place in Newcastle upon Tyne. Numbers 6 and 7 are of English garden wall bond brick, with painted ashlar dressings, while number 8 uses English bond brick and ashlar dressings. They have Welsh slate roofs. Each house is three storeys high with attics, and consists of two bays. Each house has a door on the right-hand side, set within a Tuscan doorcase with an open pediment and a fanlight with glazing bars above. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, some of which have been renewed, and topped with wedge stone lintels. Projecting sills are visible on the second floor, with sill bands located on the ground and first floors, and a band across the first floor. Numbers 7 and 8 have Edwardian tripartite attic windows, while the roof dormer of number 6 had been altered at the time of the survey. A bronze-like plaque on number 6 commemorates the 1958 centenary of the Northern Architectural Association. The houses represent Richard Grainger's first building in Newcastle.