Cacket, Burns Dick and MacKellar FRIBA architects
Extensions to the Northumberland County Council Offices, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1931-32
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Watercolour washes over pencil with pen & ink
Inscribed: Cackett Burns Dick & MacKellar Architects / Newcastle-upon-Tyne / County of Northumberland
62 x 97 cms (24 1/2 x 38 inches)
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Cackett was in practice in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by 1885 and by 1900 had joined R B Dick to form the prestigious partnership of Cackett and Burns Dick. Before the war they built a number of important buildings in the North East including the Laing Art Gallery 1903-4 (in an Edwardian Baroque style tinged with Art Nouveau detailing), as well as three interesting commercial buildings around 1910-12, Cross House (an early reinforced concrete frame coated in Portland stone) and two warehouses for R Sinclair and Co.
After the war the partnership was joined by R N MacKellar and they received several important commissions for municipal and public buildings, Newcastle University Students Union, 1924, Newcastle Magistrates Court, 1931 and the Tyne Bridge dated 1925-28.
Cackett, Burns Dick and MacKellar dominated public building and planning in inter-war Newcastle.
(detail showing background views of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)