Bigg Market, Coach and Horses

HER Number

11205

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Bigg Market, Coach and Horses

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Eating and Drinking Establishment

Site Type: Specific

Public House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The Bigg Market Brewery, advertised in the 1840s and 1850s, seems to have been connected to the Coach and Horses. There were warehouses and beer stores in the yard. By the early 1870s the former brewery was a candle factory. The inn was altered in 1875 and closed in 1884.

Easting

424700

Northing

564100

Grid Reference

NZ424700564100

Sources

Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 75; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 19