English, British
ADDITINF
Y
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
David Cockcroft
Crossref
9823
DAY1
23
DAY2
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2116
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6470
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Benwell
Description
Pendower Cottages first appear on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey for the area and appear to have been estate cottages for the Pendower Estate (HER 9823), created in 1864. Farrier suggests that they might have been constructed contemporary with the main house: Pendower, between 1864 and 1867. The estate was sold to Newcastle Council for development as a housing estate in 1919. The estate cottages were tenanted and special provision was made for Mrs Rachel McDougall, the elderly and longstanding occupant of one of the Cottages, to remain in situ at a rent of 1/- per year. The cottages became 61 and 63 Fox and Hounds Lane and remain extant. Sandstone gate posts associated with the estate are part of the entrance of property to the south.
Site Type: Broad
Estate Building
SITEDESC
Pendower Cottages first appear on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey for the area and appear to have been estate cottages for the Pendower Estate (HER 9823), created in 1864. Farrier suggests that they might have been constructed contemporary with the main house: Pendower, between 1864 and 1867. The estate was sold to Newcastle Council for development as a housing estate in 1919. The estate cottages were tenanted and special provision was made for Mrs Rachel McDougall, the elderly and longstanding occupant of one of the Cottages, to remain in situ at a rent of 1/- per year. The cottages became 61 and 63 Fox and Hounds Lane and remain extant. Sandstone gate posts associated with the estate are part of the entrance of property to the south.
Site Name
Pendower Cottages, Fox and Hounds Lane
Site Type: Specific
Estate Cottage
HER Number
6363
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Notes by I Farrier 2023, West Newcastle Picture History Collection
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2023
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2092
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6403
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Benwell
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Benwell, school
Site Type: Specific
School
HER Number
6362
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Claire MacRae
DAY1
23
DAY2
29
District
Newcastle
Easting
2125
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
04
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6427
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Benwell
Description
House, now school. 1865 by Alfred Waterhouse for Dr. Thomas Hodgkin. Hammer-dressed snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; dark slate roof with serrated ridge tiles and stone gable copings. Irregular plan. Tudor-Gothic style. 2 storeys and attics. Range around a courtyard. Extruded 2 storey porch at left of courtyard contains boarded door; loggia now glazed. Scattered fenestration - mullioned and transomed stair window, others sashes. Left projection has niches with low-relief coat of arms. Ashlar-coped ridge chimneys with buttresses and square yellow pots. Interior - geometric-patterned tiled entrance hall and dog-leg stair with pierced balustrade and grip handrail. Stair window glass has coats of arms of Middlesex, Newcastle and Cornwall, initials TH and LAH and date 1865. Gothic cast-iron radiator cover in hall. Hodgkin was a notable local historian. He gave the house to the Royal Victoria Home in 1894 and gave its grounds to the Urban District of Benwell as a public park. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
House, now school. 1865 by Alfred Waterhouse for Dr Thomas Hodgkin. Hammer-dressed snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; dark slate roof with serrated ridge tiles and stone gable copings. Irregular plan. Tudor-Gothic style. 2 storeys and attics. Range around a courtyard. Extruded 2 storey porch at left of courtyard contains boarded door; loggia now glazed. Scattered fenestration - mullioned and transomed stair window, others sashes. Left projection has niches with low-relief coat of arms. Ashlar-coped ridge chimneys with buttresses and square yellow pots. Interior - geometric-patterned tiled entrance hall and dog-leg stair with pierced balustrade and grip handrail. Stair window glass has coats of arms of Middlesex, Newcastle and Cornwall, initials TH and LAH and date 1865. Gothic cast-iron radiator cover in hall. Hodgkin was a notable local historian.
Hodgkin and family lived in the house until 1893. It was sold to the Royal Victoria Asylum for the Blind in 1897 for £8381-5-0d. In 1905 a stone built recreation hall and school rooms were built at a cost of £6000. A sports field was also laid to the south of the house. In 1927 a new wing was built to the main house costing £8000. During the Second World War the house was requisitioned by the army. In 1978 the name changed to The Royal Victoria School to acknowledge that it now catered for more than the blind. The school closed in 1985. It lay empty for a while and was purchased by Gaur Developments Ltd and renamed Gaur House in 1990. In the last ten years the property has become Bluebird Hotel. The stable block and coach house were sold to become the Victoria Enterprise Centre in 1980s. The gymnasium was demolished in the early 1990s and replaced with a care home called the Allan Court Care Home.
Site Name
Benwell Lane, Royal Victoria School for the Blind
Site Type: Specific
School for the Blind
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
6361
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 11/98; M. Hopes Dodds, 1930, Northumberland County History, p 234; I Farrier, 2015, Title Deeds to Benwell Dene House - West Newcastle Picture History Collection
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2015
English, British
ADDITINF
Y
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
David Cockcroft
Crossref
14533
DAY1
23
DAY2
20
District
Newcastle
Easting
2151
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6355
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Benwell
Description
The original congregation of the Wesleyan Chapel were recorded in the Newcastle Methodist Plan of 1805, whose members met, rent free, in the garret of Jobling’s Boathouse to the west of Paradise Village. In 1832, a stone built chapel was constructed to seat 40 people, however, vibrations caused by the construction of the Scotswood line by the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Co in 1838 made that building unsafe.
After prolonged litigation, the N&CR company agreed to fund the reconstruction of a new chapel. This building used the material of the old on Paradise Row, which was completed in 1839. In 1871 a neighbouring area of land was leased for 70 years and a new brick chapel, for 250 people and costing £900, was built alongside the existing building. The foundation stone was laid on 24 October 1870 by Mrs. William Cochran Carr, who was then presented with a silver trowel.
The original chapel became a schoolroom. Both buildings closed in 1906 when the church trustees accepted an offer of a site on Atkinson Road when South Benwell was being developed for housing. The former church and the school were demolished and the congregation moved to the new Paradise Church (HER 14533).
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
The original congregation of the Wesleyan Chapel were recorded in the Newcastle Methodist Plan of 1805, whose members met, rent free, in the garret of Jobling’s Boathouse to the west of Paradise Village. In 1832, a stone built chapel was constructed to seat 40 people, however, vibrations caused by the construction of the Scotswood line by the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Co in 1838 made that building unsafe.
After prolonged litigation, the N&CR company agreed to fund the reconstruction of a new chapel. This building used the material of the old on Paradise Row, which was completed in 1839. In 1871 a neighbouring area of land was leased for 70 years and a new brick chapel, for 250 people and costing £900, was built alongside the existing building. The foundation stone was laid on 24 October 1870 by Mrs. William Cochran Carr, who was then presented with a silver trowel.
The original chapel became a schoolroom. Both buildings closed in 1906 when the church trustees accepted an offer of a site on Atkinson Road when South Benwell was being developed for housing. The former church and the school were demolished and the congregation moved to the new Paradise Church (HER 14533).
Site Name
Paradise Church (Wesleyan), Paradise Row
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
HER Number
6360
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside, a survey January/February 2012
Notes by I Farrier 2023, West Newcastle Picture History Collection
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2023
English, British
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Claire MacRae
DAY1
23
DAY2
12
District
Newcastle
Easting
2170
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
08
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6367
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Benwell
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map. Farm either incorporates or replaces the former colliery stables (HER 16446). The farm dates to the 1850s. The Post Office Directory of 1858 names Robert Gibson as a farmer at Low Benwell; Ward's 1890 Directory names Joseph Robinson as a farmer at South Benwell and Ward's 1898 Directory names James Armstrong as manager of South Benwell Farm. The farm was demolished in the late 19th century and was covered by terraced housing until the 1980s.
Site Type: Broad
Farm
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map {1}. Farm either incorporates or replaces the former colliery stables (HER 16446). The farm dates to the 1850s. The Post Office Directory of 1858 names Robert Gibson as a farmer at Low Benwell; Ward's 1890 Directory names Joseph Robinson as a farmer at South Benwell and Ward's 1898 Directory names James Armstrong as manager of South Benwell Farm. The farm was demolished in the late 19th century and was covered by terraced housing until the 1980s.
Site Name
South Benwell Farm
Site Type: Specific
Farmstead
HER Number
6359
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2014, Land at Buddle Road, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Assessment
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2014
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2170
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6356
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Benwell
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Demolished early in C20. Stood near the corner of Atkinson Road and Scotswood Road. Occupied by coal-owner William Cochrane Carr, and then in the 1870s by the French family.
Site Name
South Benwell House
Site Type: Specific
Detached House
HER Number
6358
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Education
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2165
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6360
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Benwell
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
School
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
South Benwell School
Site Type: Specific
School
HER Number
6357
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
24
DAY2
17
District
Newcastle
Easting
2196
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
MONTH2
02
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6357
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Benwell
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Had a gable front with porch. Seated 250. Demolished.
Site Name
Buddle Road, United Methodist Church
Site Type: Specific
United Methodist Chapel
HER Number
6356
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside - a Survey January/February 2012
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2012
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2261
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6350
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Elswick
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
St. John's Road, church
Site Type: Specific
Church
HER Number
6355
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
23
District
Newcastle
Easting
2186
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6417
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Benwell
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map.
Site Type: Broad
Mineral Extraction Site
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Benwell, old quarry
Site Type: Specific
Quarry
HER Number
6354
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
1st edition Ordnance Survey map
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004