Description

NZ 2465 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BARRAS BRIDGE

14/83 Hancock Museum of Natural
History.
17.12.71

G.V. II*

Museum.1878 by John Wardle for the Newcastle Natural History Society. Sandstone
ashlar with plinth;roof not visible. Greek Revival style. 2 storeys, 4:1:5:1:4
bays. One-bay projections flank wide stone steps up to terrace with 5 double
doors and overlights. Plain stone reveals to doors and to wood mullioned-and-
transomed windows in end bays and on first floor; ground floor of projections
has blind panels. Square Doric attached columns define sections. Entablature
and parapet with raised panels over projecting wings and over central low
relief THE HANCOCK MUSEUM on fascia. Square piers flanking lowest steps have
cast iron urn-shaped supports to square gas lamps, now disused.

Listing NGR: NZ2485765169

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552445

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