Newcastle, Melbourne Street, malt house

HER Number:
10595

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Melbourne Street, malt house

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Brewing and Malting Site

Site Type: Specific:
Malt House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. This was the best known business of the Potter family - William Potter and Addison Langhorn Potter ran a brewery at Forth Banks from 1787 (HER 4895). The Melbourne Street Maltings were said to be the finest of its kind, housed in an imposing seven storey building. Newcastle Breweries bought it in 1918.

Easting:
2550

Northing:
6430

Grid Reference:
NZ25506430

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Shown on Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Brian Bennison, 2000, Tyneside's Most Respectable Breweries of 1801, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol. XXVIII, p 219