Percy Arms Inn

HER Number:
11567

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Percy Arms Inn

Place:
Walbottle

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

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:
Extant Building

Description:
The Percy Arms is shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1858 as the eastern end of a row of buildings fronting what is now Queens Road. The public house consists of a central T-shaped two storey building with stone chimneys at the centre and to the gable ends, which probably represents the original building, possibly a farmhouse related to the ranges of probable farm buildings and gingang shown to the south. This is now surrounded by a number of single storey flat roofed extensions. It is labelled as 'P.H.' by the time of the Ordnance Survey second edition map of 1897. The car park was once known as High Square. In the 1850s a farmer ran the pub. It was owned by the Duke of Northumberland and bought by Newcastle Breweries in 1943.

Easting:
417092

Northing:
566282

Grid Reference:
NZ417092566282

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey First Edition, 1858; Bennison, B, 1998, Lost Weekends, A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 3, The West