Tyne and Wear HER(16130): Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, retaining wall - Details
16130
Newcastle
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, retaining wall
Scotswood
NZ26SW
Monument
Barrier
Revetment
POST MEDIEVAL
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Structure
Wing wall to the underbridges of the Newcastle & Carlisle line. The wall to the west curves round in a quadrant-plan, at two different levels; the upper abuts against the surviving corner of an earlier structure possibly early 18th century in date. It is possible that these earlier structures were utillised as the sub-structure for a station building at track level. The eastern wind wall is caried forward as a bold square-ended buttress-like projection, its south end having a battered profile, dignified by raised alternating quoins of ashlar and an arched ashlar parapet.
420040
563830
NZ420040563830
The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2008, Scotswood Housing Expo, Newcastle upon Tyne, Historic Buildings Recording