Newcastle Brewery Headquarters

During development of the SINE website the project team were fortunate to be based in the magnificent Bruce Building on Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. Designed as a new head office for Newcastle Breweries Ltd by local architect Joseph Oswald the building was erected between 1896 and 1900, a bricklayers' strike during its construction added to the time it took to complete.

It is an imposing, three storey building constructed of red Dumfriesshire sandstone and red bricks from Commondale, North Yorkshire on a grey granite plinth. It is described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as having 'much Jacobean carved ornament, first floor oriels and a corbelled corner turret with copper fish scale dome'.