Balmbra'S Music Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Public house, music hall.
Balmbra'S Music Hall
- WRENN ID
- broken-garret-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Public house, music hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CLOTH MARKET (east side)
20/193 Nos. 6 and 8 (Balmbra's Music Hall)
G.V. II
Public house and music-hall. 1902 by A. Stockwell; originally the 'Carlton' P.H. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Ground floor has recessed entrance at right, curved window with slender pilasters at left. Bracketed ground-floor entablature. Upper floors have narrow sashes in end bays, paired sashes in centre, all in architraves; pediments above first-floor end windows and end pilasters. Dentils to these and to central window cornice. Top dentilled cornice breaks forward over panelled end pilasters. Similar short pilasters with ball finials flank pedimented shaped gable containing keyed roundel. False segmental broken pediment, with central ball finial, below roundel. Steeply-pitched roof has corniced end chimneys. Historical note: this building replaced the 'Wheatsheaf' P.H., which was owned by one Balmbra in the mid C19 and was the setting for the first performance of the song 'The Blaydon Races' in which it is mentioned.
Listing NGR: NZ2494864078
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