2012
NZ2564 : Junction of Mosley Street and Dean Street
taken 14 years ago, near to Gateshead, England

Junction of Mosley Street and Dean Street
The building is now a bar and pizza restaurant, previously National Provincial Bank and is Grade II listed:
12.11.65 No. 26 (National Westminster Bank)
Bank. 1870-72 by Gibson for National Provincial Bank. Vermiculate sandstone basement; sandstone ashlar with pink granite nook shafts to ground floor openings;
Welsh slate roof. Palladian style. Corner building. Basement sloping down to
left on hill; 3 storeys, 5 bays and entrance bay set back at right. Rusticated
ground has central door with overlight in pedimented doorcase; and in entrance
bay, doors in lugged architrave with BANK CHAMBERS incised above. Ground
floor round-headed fixed lights with archivolts, impost and sill strings and
panelled band beneath. Pedimented Ionic aedicules to first-floor sashes; architraves
to those second floor in giant Roman Doric order. Frieze to Mosley Street on
right inscribed NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND MDCCLXXI; to Dean Street on
left return THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND LIMD ESTABLISHED MDCCXXXIII.
High blocking course and tall, corniced, ashlar chimneys.
Previously on the site was probably a building with an Ordnance Survey benchmark: see Link
12.11.65 No. 26 (National Westminster Bank)
Bank. 1870-72 by Gibson for National Provincial Bank. Vermiculate sandstone basement; sandstone ashlar with pink granite nook shafts to ground floor openings;
Welsh slate roof. Palladian style. Corner building. Basement sloping down to
left on hill; 3 storeys, 5 bays and entrance bay set back at right. Rusticated
ground has central door with overlight in pedimented doorcase; and in entrance
bay, doors in lugged architrave with BANK CHAMBERS incised above. Ground
floor round-headed fixed lights with archivolts, impost and sill strings and
panelled band beneath. Pedimented Ionic aedicules to first-floor sashes; architraves
to those second floor in giant Roman Doric order. Frieze to Mosley Street on
right inscribed NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND MDCCLXXI; to Dean Street on
left return THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND LIMD ESTABLISHED MDCCXXXIII.
High blocking course and tall, corniced, ashlar chimneys.
Previously on the site was probably a building with an Ordnance Survey benchmark: see Link
