Croft Stairs, Sinclair's Cooperage

HER Number:
5771

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Croft Stairs, Sinclair's Cooperage

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Estate Building

Site Type: Specific:
Estate Cottage

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
This former gardener's cottage once lay within the walled garden of the Barber Surgeon's Hall (HER 498). It is first shown on Corbridge's map of 1723. Its lower courses were constructed of rough unmortared sandstone. It was rebuilt, probably in 18th century with brick at first storey level. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Sash windows, mostly renewed. In 1698 Celia Fiennes wrote of the Hall "a pretty garden walled in, full of flowers and greenes in potts and in the borders". The Barber Surgeons Hall was demolished in 1847 to make way for the railway bridge, but the gardener's cottage survives and has been restored and is home to a firm of accountants. Note that the listed building description describes this building as a former Sinclair's Cooperage with outbuildings to west. More research required. LISTED GRADE 2.

Easting:
425280

Northing:
564150

Grid Reference:
NZ425280564150

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5771 >> Tyne and Wear Museums, 2003, Croft Stairs, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Watching Brief Corbridge, 1723 Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 21/297