City Road, Duke of Connaught Public House
City Road, Duke of Connaught Public House
HER Number
15697
District
Newcastle
Site Name
City Road, Duke of Connaught Public House
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
Demolished Building
Description
This pub was created by adding an extension to the front and into the garden of an elegant house. Then, City Road was a fashionable suburb. At the turn of the 20th century the Northern Echo said 'City Road, which no one would patronise by choice, abounds in lofty and what were then really stately tradesmen's dwellings. But its glory has departed'. The Duke of Connaught closed in 1906.
Easting
426000
Northing
564200
Grid Reference
NZ426000564200
Sources
Brian Bennison, 1996, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two - The North and East, p 22