Lead Works Office

HER Number:
4899

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Lead Works Office

Place:
Elswick

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Metal Industry Site

Site Type: Specific:
Lead Working Site

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
The lead works (HER ref. 4116) site office, if it survives inside the later rebuilding, is probably the oldest upstanding structure on the site. It appears to have lain in the residential part of the original 2 acre site, and is apparently shown on the earliest map available of the site. It may have originally been built a a house rather than an office.

Easting:
424290

Northing:
563160

Grid Reference:
NZ424290563160

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4899 >> Northern Archaeological Associates, 2000, Elswick Lead Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Assessment