Lamesley, smithy

HER Number

5141

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Lamesley, smithy

Place

Lamesley

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Metal Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Blacksmiths Workshop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Now converted to form rooms for the adjacent public house and hotel the early 19th century single storey smithy building retains a number of internal features, principally two hearths.

Easting

425000

Northing

557700

Grid Reference

NZ425000557700

Sources

<< HER 5141 >> I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 50; Gateshead Council, April 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Proposed Lamesley Conservation Area, pp 82-85 (Supplementary Planning Guidance), pp 88-90; Gateshead Council, July 2003, Lamesley Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategy and Character Statement (Appendix to Supplementary Planning Guidance 1), pp 29-34