Tyne and Wear HER(6681): The Close, Duke of Cumberland - Details
6681
Newcastle
The Close, Duke of Cumberland
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Eating and Drinking Establishment
Public House
POST MEDIEVAL
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Documentary Evidence
The Close, Duke of Cumberland
Shown on second edition Ordnance Survey 10.56” to 1 mile revision. Seems to have been much reduced in frontage. George Henderson 1783 innkeeper, Thomas Bell 1777. Mr Henderson’s freehold against Bankside.
Stone, 3 storeys
425080
563790
NZ425080563790
Photograph by John Nolan, Newcastle City Archaeological Unit; Barbara Harbottle, 1973, No. 26 The Close, Newcastle upon Tyne in Archaeological Newsbulletin for Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, No. 4, May 1973, pp 10-11; Bennison, Brian, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume One, The Central Area, p 40