Tyne and Wear HER(6681): Newcastle, The Close, Duke of Cumberland - Details
6681
Newcastle
Newcastle, The Close, Duke of Cumberland
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Licensed Premises
Public House
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
The Close, Duke of Cumberland
Shown on second edition Ordnance Survey 10.56” to 1 mile revision. Seems to have been much reduced in frontage. George Henderson 1783 innkeeper, Thomas Bell 1777. Mr Henderson’s freehold against Bankside.
Stone, 3 storeys
2508
6379
NZ25086379
Photograph by John Nolan, Newcastle City Archaeological Unit; Barbara Harbottle, 1973, No. 26 The Close, Newcastle upon Tyne in Archaeological Newsbulletin for Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, No. 4, May 1973, pp 10-11; Bennison, Brian, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume One, The Central Area, p 40