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Latitude: 54.9697 / 54°58'10"N
Longitude: -1.6135 / 1°36'48"W
OS Eastings: 424839
OS Northings: 563962
OS Grid: NZ248639
Mapcode National: GBR SP8.RF
Mapcode Global: WHC3R.5CX0
Plus Code: 9C6WX99P+VH
Entry Name: Sun Insurance Buildings
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1355250
English Heritage Legacy ID: 304516
ID on this website: 101355250
Location: Newcastle Helix, 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: Newcastle St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
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NZ 2463 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE COLLINGWOOD STREET
(south side)
23/206 Nos. 23-29 odd (Sun
Insurance Buildings)
G.V. II
Offices. 1902-4 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood for Sun Insurance Co. Sandstone ashlar
with granite plinth and door surrounds. Copper roof. Free style. 6 storeys, 5 bays
and 3-bay cimved right corner. Central double door in bolection-moulded
architrave with coved rusticated stone surround to that and to fanlight; rusticated
ground floor. Prominent brackets above door support balcony to window in segmental-
pedimented Ionic aedicule with carved sun. Architraves to all windows; bracketed
pediments to those in outer first - floor bays, and cornices on second floor.
Prominent modillioned top cornice. Curved corner has high plinth with cushion
rustication and guilloche band; door in central bay has fluted architrave under
oeil-de-boeuf flanked by large Atlantes, on brackets with much leaf and flower
carving, which support first-floor balcony. Balconies have wrought-iron sun
motif. Right return to Westgate Road continues plinth and has giant Corinthian
pilasters to segmental pediment containing large sunburst. Copper-covered blocking
course ornamented with repeated S. Roof curved over corner bay.
Listing NGR: NZ2483963961
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