Marlborough Crescent, Argyle House Public House

HER Number:
10225

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Marlborough Crescent, Argyle House Public House

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

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:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Originally called the Shephered Inn and Brewery, worked by Ralph Patton in 1853. He went bankrupt in 1863. The new tenant converted the brewery to refreshment rooms and renamed the inn 'The Flowers'. It became the Argyle House in 1881. In the 1890s the Argyle House was described as 'among the handsomest in the city'. The rooms consisted of a downstairs public bar, adjoining which is a small upholstered snug for better-class customers. Upstairs is a billiard room, a large and well lighted apartment with its attendant bar. The billiard table was described as first-class. Closed in 1905.

Easting:
424270

Northing:
563770

Grid Reference:
NZ424270563770

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Shown on Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 45, 48; Bennison, B, 1998, Lost Weekends, A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 3, The West