Richard Nash and Company

End-of-terrace five-bay three-storey office, built c. 1900, having render shopfront to front (east). Single-bay three-storey addition with recent oriel and ruinous four-bay two-storey block to rear (west). Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, concealed gutters and cast-iron downpipes. Rendered parapet to front and side (south) having decorative frieze with moulded vertical platbands springing from keystones of second floor windows, and rendered cornice surmounted by hipped pantile roof. Flat bitumen clad roof to oriel. Roughcast-rendered wall with decorative render plinth to front and side (north) elevation, ground floor and east ends of first and second floors to side (south) elevation. Channelled render sill band to ground floor of front and side (south) elevations incorporating shallow corbelled canopy to front elevation. Moulded render platbands surrounding window bays to first and second floors with decorative rendered panels between windows. Recent wrought-iron street lamp attached to front elevation. Rendered walls to rear additions. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and first floor of side (south) elevation. Moulded render archivolts to second floor openings of front elevation. Timber casement windows elsewhere. Windows to rear addition blocked. Camber-headed window openings with render sills to ground floor of front elevation, having rendered surrounds and decorative crow foot rendering to archivolt. Recent wrought-iron sill guards and replacement fixed timber-framed display windows. Camber-headed door openings with render surrounds and crow's foot rendering to archivolts to front elevation, having single and double-leaf timber panelled doors surmounted by lead-lined lattice work overlights, lead-lined side light to single leaf door. Fronting directly onto street.

This prominently sited, large scale building is one of a pair of uniquely decorated structures in the centre of Newcastle West. It is part of the Nash's Mineral Water company, which was set up in Newcastle West in 1875 by Richard and Johanna Nash. Unusual geometric motifs within it façade, and interesting window openings to the ground floor, compliment the building's appearance and distinguish it from the surrounding streetscape. These and other decorative features, including render archivolts and vertical platbands, create a pleasing contrast against an otherwise plain roughcast rendered façade.