Thermal Syndicate Offices

WALLSEND NEPTUNE ROAD (east side) NZ 26 NE Thermal Syndicate offices 6/162 II Offices. Circa 1906 for Thermal Syndicate. Brick with ashlar dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Free Baroque style. 2 storeys, 9 windows; gables over entrance in bays 4 and 5 and over 2 right end bays. Elliptical-headed surround to double door and overlight in prominent Ionic doorcase with paired, banded pilasters, dentilled cornice and broken segmental pedimented hood with carved soffit. Wood mullioned-and-transomed windows, of 6 and 8 lights, on ground floor; cross windows on first floor, those under gables with stone-mullions and transoms; double keystones under right gable rise to tall segmental pediment containing roundel. Central gable over door has tall consoled pediment containing round-headed keyed window. Ball finials to gables. Hipped roof has ashlar-corniced brick ridge chimneys. Historical note: the syndicate was formed in 1903 to develop the technique of fusing quartz for the manufacture of acid-and-heat-resistant vessels. Source: W. Richardson, History of the Parish of Wallsend. Newcastle 1923 pp349-353. Listed for industrial-historical interest.

Listing NGR: NZ2974965744