Elswick, Icehouse

HER Number

4897

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Elswick, Icehouse

Place

Elswick

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Icehouse

Site Type: Specific

Icehouse

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A small (6 metre diameter) circular icehouse is marked on a map of c.1850 as a chimney, but is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan of 1859 as an icehouse. It is still marked as an icehouse on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan of 1894 but is not shown subsequently.

Easting

424350

Northing

563180

Grid Reference

NZ424350563180

Sources

<< HER 4897 >> Northern Archaeological Associates, 2000, Elswick Lead Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Assessment