Tyne and Wear HER(9079): Lemington, Lemington Glass Works, Cone - Details
9079
Newcastle
Lemington, Lemington Glass Works, Cone
Lemington
NZ16SE
Industrial
Glassmaking Site
Glass Cone
Post Medieval
C18
Structure
Glassworks, now factory. Circa 1787 for the Northumberland Glass Company. English
bond brick; renewed uppermost courses. Tall cone with 5 large segmental arches
visible on west and south sides, 2 smaller on north, bricked up and with inserted
door in north-west. Source: E. Mackenzie View of the County of Northumberland
vol. II, Newcastle 1825, p. 382. Historical note: the only surviving glasshouse
on the Tyne, famous since the early C17 for the manufacture of glass. LISTED GRADE 2*
1836
6457
NZ18366457
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 10/24