Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Sunlight Chambers at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26410112

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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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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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)