Haymarket Brewery, Percy Street

HER Number:
10396

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Haymarket Brewery, Percy Street

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Food and Drink Industry Site

Site Type: Specific:
Brewery

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition 1860s. John Sanderson was a brewer here in the 1850s. He died in 1896 and his son Councillor W.J. Sanderson took over. The brewery included offices (now Bruce Building, HER 5150), a mineral water works, beer-bottling plant, wine and spirit stores (basement of Bruce Building), stables for 36 horses, blacksmith's forge, coopers and joinetrs shops, an engine and boiler house to provide light and power, the Cock and Anchor Public House (later Hotspur Hotel) and shops (HER 9931). The firm had 26 other public houses. Cellars under the stable yard were accessed from the bonded warehouse in St. Thomas Street. In 1896 Newcastle Breweries acquired all of the assets of Sanderson & Sons. In the 1950s the Bruce Building was compulsorily purchased from the brewery for the extension to King's College. The east end of the building and the upper floors of Nos. 101-111 were occupied by the education department, later the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies.

Easting:
424700

Northing:
564810

Grid Reference:
NZ424700564810

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey First Edition 1860s; Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 53; The Archaeological Practice Ltd, 2013, The Bruce Building, Nos. 113-115 and Nos. 101-111 Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne - Historic Buildings Recording; documents held by Tyne and Wear Archives, Ref. 14868 bundle, Percy Street and ref 16132 bundle, St. Thomas Street