Description

MIDDLESBROUGH EXCHANGE PLACE, NZ 4920 NE east side. 8/28 Nos. 2,3 and 4 17.11.78 G.V. II Terraced offices, c.1870 by W.H. Blessley (Middlesbrough). Brick with stone, polychrome brick and encaustic tile dressings. Welsh slate roof. Italianate. 3 storeys, irregular. 18-bay stilted-segmental-arcaded ground floor, has round granite colonnettes with square pedestals and capitals, carved in first 3 bays, roughly-dressed in other bays. Renewed doors and blocked overlights, flanked by pilasters, in 4th and 13th bays. Renewed windows now boarded over; window in 3rd bay now holds door. Continuous hoodmould, with billet moulding in 4th to 18th bays. Foliate-patterned tiled band below first-floor sills. Similar 12-bay round arcading on first floor, holding recessed single and paired round-headed casement windows. Similar colonettes separate paired windows, under common round heads with quasi-Celtic cross-ornamented roundels in blocked tympana. 7-bay 2nd floor has round-headed casement windows, single and in groups of 2,3 and 4, with similar colonnettes. Carved capitals and imposts in bays 1 to 4. Moulded sill string; bracketed eaves cornice. Large gabled dormer over 2nd bay has round-headed opening holding 4 round-headed windows under 3 cusped oculi. Pointed relieving arches over all openings. Cross-axial stacks, truncated at right, gabled at left end. Disused and dilapidated at time of resurvey. Formerly known as Albert Bridge Place.

Listing NGR: NZ4963220681

External Links

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