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Latitude: 54.9713 / 54°58'16"N
Longitude: -1.6134 / 1°36'48"W
OS Eastings: 424847
OS Northings: 564143
OS Grid: NZ248641
Mapcode National: GBR SP9.FD
Mapcode Global: WHC3R.59ZS
Plus Code: 9C6WX9CP+GJ
Entry Name: Sunlight Chambers
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1116510
English Heritage Legacy ID: 304406
Also known as: Sunlight Chambers, Newcastle
ID on this website: 101116510
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1
County: Newcastle upon Tyne
Electoral Ward/Division: Westgate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Newcastle upon Tyne
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: St Nicholas Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Building
NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BIGG MARKET (north side)
20/103 Nos 2 - 4 (even)
Sunlight Chambers.
G.V. II
Offices. 1901-2 by W and S Owen for Lever Bros. Modified Baroque style.
Sandstone ashlar ground floor with mosaic frieze; painted rendered upper floors
with ashlar dressings; roof of French tiles. Art nouveau style. Basement,
3 storeys and attics; 3 bays and five in right return to High Bridge.
Central basement entrance down steps. Hollow-chamfered reveals and alternately-
projecting blocks to door under ornamental iron grille in first bay; similar
surrounds to basement and ground floor windows, with iron grilles to the
former. Ground floor frieze depicting harvest and industry, and cornice
modillioned above door. Architraves to windows above with pulvinated frieze
and cornice on first floor, and tall triple keys to second, all sashes
with glazing bars. Pilaster strips and rendered eaves, frieze with swags
linking keystones; egg-and-dart-moulded cornice. 3 flat dormers have
similar sashes.
Listing NGR: NZ2484764143
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