Description

NZ 2464 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CLOTH MARKET
(east side)

20/198 No. 54 (Beehive Hotel)

G.V. II

Public house. 1902 by J. Oswald and Sons. Faience ground floor; brick with
ashlar dressings above; roof of plain tiles with copper dome. 4 storeys, one
bay to Cloth Market x 3 to High Bridge on left return. 6-panelled door at right
under triglyph frieze; similar door in left canted corner. Green and yellow
ground floor has panelled and garlanded Ionic pilasters supporting entablature
with leaf-bracketed frieze; original BEEHIVE HOTEL in low relief on fascia
beneath prominent cornice. Upper floors have ovolo-moulded stone mullioned-and-
transomed windows, with first-and second-floor cornices; sash window on third
floor under wide eaves. Canted corner has blank first floor with wrought iron
brackets holding renewed hanging sign; second-floor sash. Consoles to slightly-
projecting top window. Pilastered angle turret has open arches under roundels
and frieze; ogee dome has four very small lucarnes, with slender swept pyramid
roofs, and tall spike finial.

Listing NGR: NZ2486164138

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275768

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)