Nun's Gate Brewery
Nun's Gate Brewery
HER Number
11064
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Nun's Gate Brewery
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Eating and Drinking Establishment
Site Type: Specific
Public House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Francis Cochrane, licensee of the Clayton Arms and an attorney's clerk, brewed here. In 1851 a joiner in Nun Street was selling the plant of 'a compact brewery, capable of brewing about twenty half-barrels, together with the whole of the materials".
Easting
424711
Northing
564246
Grid Reference
NZ424711564246
Sources
Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 24