Forth Street, engineering works building

HER Number:
15064

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Forth Street, engineering works building

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Railway Engineering Site

Site Type: Specific:
Railway Engineering Works

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Building built as a single storey structure in the late C19 on the northern part of Stpehenson's Works (HER 4347). Heightened to two storeys around 1930. Now Ford's Body Shop office.

Easting:
424670

Northing:
563690

Grid Reference:
NZ424670563690

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
PLB Consulting Ltd with Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2001, The Stephenson Quarter, Newcastle upon Tyne - Conservation Plan and Archaeological Assessment, page 34