Front Street, Black Bull Inn

HER Number

9430

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Front Street, Black Bull Inn

Place

Longbenton

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Eating and Drinking Establishment

Site Type: Specific

Public House

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Second pub of this name on this site. The first is shown on a plan of 1755 and was a coaching innwith stable behind. Thomas Addison, founder of the modern science of Endocrinology and discoverer of Addison's Disease) was born in a house that adjoined the inn in 1793. The present pub was built in 1938 to a design by Hetherington and Wilson of Newcastle. Adjoining older shops (including 'Peggy's Parlour' survived until about 1950. LOCAL LIST

Easting

427270

Northing

568490

Grid Reference

NZ427270568490

Sources

North Tyneside Council, Draft Local List Nominations, 2006; W.G. Elliott, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor, Killingworth, Palmersville and Benton Square, Book Two, p 6; W.G. Elliott and Edwin Smith, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor and Killingworth, pp 24-27; North Tyneside Council, November 2008, Register of Buildings and Parks of Special Local Architectural and Historic Interest SDP (Local Development Document 9); ARS Ltd., 2011, Land at The Black Bull, Longbenton, Newcastle upon Tyne - archaeological evaluation