Milk Market, The Tyne Public House
Milk Market, The Tyne Public House
HER Number
1620
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Milk Market, The Tyne Public House
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Eating and Drinking Establishment
Site Type: Specific
Public House
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Public house, 1904 by E. Bowman. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys and attics; 4 windows. Bracketed fascia cornice to pub front on ground floor, with corner entrance; 4 sash windows above have wide architraves and glazing bars. Eaves string, dentilled cornice. 2 dormers have sashes under pediments. Ashlar string and cornice to left end brick chimney on steeply-pitched hipped roof. Included for group value. Bennison - originally called the Great Eastern Hotel. Became the Tyne, Closed in 1967 when it was a Scottish & Newcastle pub, having been bought by McEwan's for £8,375 in 1939. It reopened in 1991when the Waterline (HER 1619) was created out of warehouses. The Tyne became a 37 table restaurant called Moby Dick's.
Easting
425550
Northing
564010
Grid Reference
NZ425550564010
Sources
Joint Conservation Team, 1976, Survey of Area to the north of Quayside, between Milk Market & Broad..; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 46 and photos on p 44 and 45