Shieldfield, Stoddart Street, Biscuit Factory

HER Number:
9863

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Shieldfield, Stoddart Street, Biscuit Factory

Place:
Shieldfield

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Industrial Building

Site Type: Specific:
Factory

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
This former biscuit factory in Shieldfield recently underwent a sensitive restoration and conversion into a popular art gallery and restaurant. This new status has brought attention to the industrial past of the Shieldfield area, which had many factories in the nineteenth century. The three storey building is stone and brick. The heavily rusticated ground floor has six arched windows in sandstone surrounds, the windows of the upper floors are separated by brick pilasters. On the Stoddart Street frontage the central pilasters rise to support a pediment above a large single plate window. LOCAL LIST

Easting:
2585

Northing:
6473

Grid Reference:
NZ25856473

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Newcastle City Council, 2006, Local List of Buildings, Structures, Parks, Gardens and Open Spaces of Special Local Architectural or Historic Interest Supplementary Planning Document; Sue Bright (Ouseburn Trust), research on the Biscuit Factory 2018