Benton, Benton Road, Newton Park Hotel

HER Number:
15638

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Benton, Benton Road, Newton Park Hotel

Place:
Benton

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Opened in 1939. Lynn Pearson - an interesting estate pub in neo-Tudor. Retains two original doorcases and a chimney-stack with brick tumbling (bricks laid diagonally for decorative purposes). Its interior has magnificent relief floral patterned ceiling paper in the main bar and billiard room. The barmaids wore uniforms and served customers at their tables.

Easting:
2697

Northing:
6753

Grid Reference:
NZ26976753

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brian Bennison, 1996, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two - The North and East, p 15; Lynn F Pearson, 1989, The Northumbrian Pub, p 128