Westgate Road, Thomas Anderson's House

HER Number

8631

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Westgate Road, Thomas Anderson's House

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on Corbridge's map of 1723. One of a number of houses with plain classical facades and some with shaped gables. On site now occupied by the Literary and Philosophical Society Library.

Easting

424815

Northing

563926

Grid Reference

NZ424815563926

Sources

T. Faulkner and P. Lowery, 1996, Lost Houses of Newcastle and Northumberland, p31