Sunlight Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Office. 4 related planning applications.
Sunlight Chambers
- WRENN ID
- broken-cinder-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BIGG MARKET (north side)
20/103 Nos 2 - 4 (even) Sunlight Chambers.
G.V. II
Offices. 1901-2 by W and S Owen for Lever Bros. Modified Baroque style. Sandstone ashlar ground floor with mosaic frieze; painted rendered upper floors with ashlar dressings; roof of French tiles. Art nouveau style. Basement, 3 storeys and attics; 3 bays and five in right return to High Bridge. Central basement entrance down steps. Hollow-chamfered reveals and alternately- projecting blocks to door under ornamental iron grille in first bay; similar surrounds to basement and ground floor windows, with iron grilles to the former. Ground floor frieze depicting harvest and industry, and cornice modillioned above door. Architraves to windows above with pulvinated frieze and cornice on first floor, and tall triple keys to second, all sashes with glazing bars. Pilaster strips and rendered eaves, frieze with swags linking keystones; egg-and-dart-moulded cornice. 3 flat dormers have similar sashes.
Listing NGR: NZ2484764143
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