Trinity House Banqueting Hall And Board Room

NZ 2564 SW and NZ 2563 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BROAD CHARE (west side)

21 and 24/126 Trinity House Banqueting Hall and 14.6.54 Board Room.

G.V. I

Banqueting Hall. Dated 1721 on plaque. English garden wall bond brick (4 and one) with painted ground floor and ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 windows. Ground floor has segmental-headed passage arch in third bay; irregular fenestration: 3 square windows, 2 on left C19 2-light, Tudor style under drip moulds. First floor has covered gallery in first bay linking with adjacent building; 5 elliptical-headed sash windows with wide glazing bars in architraves with small keys; moulded sills. Floor string; gutter cornice under parapet with pilasters and ashlar coping. Interior shows 4-bay hall with panelled walls; ceiling has stucco decoration with central oval compass. Re-used Jacobean overmantel with carved side panels and central arms of Charles I. Mostly original or early glass. Board room off entrance passage: dated 1791 on plaque on right return to rear of banqueting hall. Probably by John Stokoe. Half- glazed door and screen to passage; stucco modillioned ceiling cornice; chimney piece with cornice.

Listing NGR: NZ2536963995