1-5 Lime Street, Coal Merchants

1-5 Lime Street, Coal Merchants

HER Number
5574
District
Newcastle
Site Name
1-5 Lime Street, Coal Merchants
Place
Ouseburn
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Coal Mining Site
Site Type: Specific
Coal Depot
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Detached three-storey building on corner of Lime Street and Cut Bank. This was the coal depot of J.T. Potts. The Potts family acquired the property in 1898. Trade directories before this date list the property as "Montague Coal Depot" under the ownership of S. Wood. After 1898 the business is listed as T. Potts & Co, Coal Merchants. It was still in the Potts family in 1929. The offices were on the ground floor, with residential rooms above. Coal was stored in the yard to the rear. Access into the yard by coal wagons was through a passageway shown on the Ordnance Survey second edition.
Easting
426260
Northing
564350
Grid Reference
NZ426260564350
Sources
<< HER 5574 >> 1999, Ouseburn Heritage, Issue 4 pp 8-9