Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26637922

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas