Victoria Buildings

Victoria Buildings, located on Grainger Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, were built in 1874 by Matthew Thompson for Sir Walter Scott. These shops and offices are designed in an Italianate style and feature sandstone ashlar with a dark slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall with attics and consists of nine bays.

The ground floor has rusticated piers, with the centre right pier altered, and a central office door that has been renewed. A bracketed cornice runs along the top of the ground floor. The upper floors are adorned with pilasters; the end bays have fluted Tuscan Order pilasters on the first floor, framing arched windows that have shell-carved tympana. The paired central windows on the second floor are set under a round arch and feature lozenge ornament in the tympanum, while the other bays have plainer windows situated between wide pilasters topped with brackets leading to the cornice.

The attics at both ends and in the centre have one and three lights, respectively, with garland-ornamented pilasters beneath open pediments, and there are linking balustrades with urn finials. Some alterations were made to the ground floor around 1980.