Lemington, Lemington Glass Works, Cone

HER Number:
9079

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Lemington, Lemington Glass Works, Cone

Place:
Lemington

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Glassmaking Site

Site Type: Specific:
Glass Cone

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Glassworks, now factory. Circa 1787 for the Northumberland Glass Company. English bond brick; renewed uppermost courses. Tall cone with 5 large segmental arches visible on west and south sides, 2 smaller on north, bricked up and with inserted door in north-west. Source: E. Mackenzie View of the County of Northumberland vol. II, Newcastle 1825, p. 382. Historical note: the only surviving glasshouse on the Tyne, famous since the early C17 for the manufacture of glass. LISTED GRADE 2*

Easting:
1836

Northing:
6457

Grid Reference:
NZ18366457

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 10/24