Victoria Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Shop, office. 6 related planning applications.
Victoria Buildings
- WRENN ID
- winding-buttress-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Shop, office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE GRAINGER STREET (east side) 20/263 Nos. 42-50 even (Victoria Buildings) G.V. II Shops and offices. Dated 1874; by Matthew Thompson for Sir Walter Scott. Some ground floor alterations c.1980. Sandstone ashlar; dark slate roof. Italianate style. 3 storeys and attics; 9 bays. Rusticated piers to ground floor, that at centre right altered; central renewed office door; bracketed cornice. Pilasters to upper floors, fluted in end bays, are Tuscan Order on first floor, framing arched windows with shell-carved tympana; similar carving to paired central second floor windows under round arch with lozenge ornament in tympanum ; plainer windows in other bays, between wide pilasters with brackets to top cornice. End and central attics of one and 3 lights have garland-ornamented pilasters under open pediments; linking balustrades with urn finials.
Listing NGR: NZ2472964098
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