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

Lats/Lons:

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