King Charles I House, 23 Shieldfield Green
King Charles I House, 23 Shieldfield Green
HER Number
1865
District
Newcastle
Site Name
King Charles I House, 23 Shieldfield Green
Place
Shieldfield
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
Detached House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
This was situated in Shield Street, overlooking the 'Shield Field' (HER 5471), where Charles I was allowed to play 'goff' while imprisoned in Newcastle during the Civil War, resting at the house. Photographs show it to have been a three-storey 3-bay brick-built house with Dutch-gabled dormer windows and a steeply pitched gabled pantile roof with earlier slates evident in places. Robert Gilchrist, poet, died in this house in 1844. It was owned by Alderman Sir Richard Walter Plummer in 1917, who presented it to the Council to ensure its prservation. It was finally demolished in 1960 and the area was redeveloped with high rise flats {1}. A bronze tablet mounted on purbeck over the front entrance read "THIS HOUSE, IN WHICH ROBERT GILCHRIST THE NEWCASTLE POET DIED IN 1844 AND IN WHICH KING CHARLES I RESTED WHEN HE PLAYED GOLF IN THE SHIELDFIELD, WAS DEVISED TO THE LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BY THE LATE ALDERMAN SIR WALTER RICHARD PLUMMER D.C.C 1917". The front entrance doorcase and door which were present in 1959 were C19 {12}.
Easting
425540
Northing
564700
Grid Reference
NZ425540564700
Sources
<< HER 1865 >> T. Faulkner & P. Lowery, 1996, Lost Houses of Newcastle and Northumberland, p 24
Tyne and Wear Museums, 2004, Ridley Villas, New Bridge Street, Newcastle, Archaeological Assessment
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, 1886, Acc 60139
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, Acc 715924
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, Acc 38399
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, Acc 715833
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, Acc 13966
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, 1958, Acc 46758
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, 1959, Acc 15148
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, 1960, Acc 40769; Pearson, Lynn, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 9
Tyne and Wear Museums, 2004, Ridley Villas, New Bridge Street, Newcastle, Archaeological Assessment
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, 1886, Acc 60139
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, Acc 715924
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, Acc 38399
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, Acc 715833
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, Acc 13966
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, 1958, Acc 46758
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, 1959, Acc 15148
Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, 1960, Acc 40769; Pearson, Lynn, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 9