445 Westgate Road, tram shed

445 Westgate Road, tram shed

HER Number
10767
District
Newcastle
Site Name
445 Westgate Road, tram shed
Place
Fenham
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Tramway Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Tram Shed
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition. Built 1903 two years after the opening of the Newcastle Corporation Tramways but ahead of the 1907 extension of the network to Fenham. A building recording was undertaken in 2015 ahead of conversion. The forecourt on Westgate Road is presently used as a car wash. The building is concrete rendered and has fine round-headed arched windows and other architectural detail. Largely utilitarian external elevations. Following recording it has been concluded that, apart from the rebuilding of the north end the tram sheds survive in more or less their overall form with altered interiors.
Easting
422580
Northing
564610
Grid Reference
NZ422580564610
Sources
Shown on Ordnance Survey Third Edition of 1919; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2015, Wingrove Tram Sheds, Fenham, Newcastle - Historic Building Recording