Description

NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE OLD GEORGE YARD
20/434
6/9/77 The Old George P.H.
G.V. II
Early C17 or earlier house with considerable alterations in C18 and early C19.
Brick, mainly rendered, part painted, rubble stone to rear and under arch; Welsh
slate roofs. Three-part facade: at west of three storeys, two windows; in centre
two storeys, three windows, both sections stuccoed. To south-east over a
carriage arch an irregular two-storey part of painted brick. Two six-panel doors
in pedimented doorcases. Sash windows with glazing bars, four of them tripartite.
Arch supported on stout beams. Rubble walls beneath with two segment-headed door-
ways. High-pitched roofs except in third part. Long, irregular rear elevation of
large rubble stonework, patched in places. One original window surround remains
and a large chimney breast, inside which is a wide fireplace with shallow segmental
chamfered stone arch with rounded corners and slightly vermiculate voussoirs.
Main rooms on both floors have stout, fairly close-set joists, possibly of early
C18. Bar at east end has stout, shallow joists, probably original. Roofs
renewed in C18.

Listing NGR: NZ2489264153

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275677

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