Cloth Market, Humbles Basket Shop
Cloth Market, Humbles Basket Shop
HER Number
6693
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Cloth Market, Humbles Basket Shop
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Craft Industry Site
Site Type: Specific
Basket Makers Workshop
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Post Medieval 1540 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Cloth Market, Humbles Basket Shop
Free standing “cottage” to the south of the Bigg Market in the fork between the Cloth Market and Groat Market. Two storeys. Steeply pitched roof. Entrance on east to ground floor shop. North face has two large windows with central wide doorway that is filled with baskets for sale. First floor has jetties on all sides and on north face a small central window and the remains of sills either side. In the photograph you can see the construction of the new town hall behind the basket shop (c.1858-60).
Timber, 2 storeys
Free standing “cottage” to the south of the Bigg Market in the fork between the Cloth Market and Groat Market. Two storeys. Steeply pitched roof. Entrance on east to ground floor shop. North face has two large windows with central wide doorway that is filled with baskets for sale. First floor has jetties on all sides and on north face a small central window and the remains of sills either side. In the photograph you can see the construction of the new town hall behind the basket shop (c.1858-60).
Timber, 2 storeys
Easting
424900
Northing
564000
Grid Reference
NZ424900564000
Sources
Photographs in Newcastle City Library NCL 18313 and NCL 18314; Malcolm L Scaife, 1974, Newcastle Old and New; Newcastle City Libraries, 1986, Gone but not forgotten 7 - Shops and Shopping, 1