Front Street, Ship Inn

HER Number

11411

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Front Street, Ship Inn

Place

Longbenton

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Inn

Site Type: Specific

Inn

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Present in 1899. Later converted to flats. A new Ship Inn was built alongside in 1904. This still stands.

Easting

427500

Northing

568570

Grid Reference

NZ427500568570

Sources

W.G. Elliott and Edwin Smith, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor and Killingworth, p 34, 35, 36