Morton Crescent

HER Number

11522

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Morton Crescent

Place

Callerton

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Terrace

Site Type: Specific

Terrace

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Terraced row of brick miners cottages with front gardens and rear yards. Built by 1898. Messrs Severs and Morton, directors of North Walbottle Colliery, were the creators and owners of Callerton village.

Easting

417680

Northing

568710

Grid Reference

NZ417680568710

Sources

Ordnance Survey mapping (second edition 1898); T. Peacock, 1994, Bygone Blucher and North Walbottle