Jesmond Vale, Blue Bell Public House

HER Number:
10036

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Jesmond Vale, Blue Bell Public House

Place:
Jesmond

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Rebuilt in 1912. Leased by Robert Deuchar in 1926. He bought the pub in 1927 for £18,750. A five room pub (one bar and four sitting rooms) with single bar counter. In 1887 plans to combine the bar and two sitting rooms and enlarge the counter were refused because of the siting of the drains. The pub had a walled garden next to the Ouse Burn. It was a Newcastle Breweries pub in 1997.

Easting:
2628

Northing:
6545

Grid Reference:
NZ26286545

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Bennison, Brian, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 7; Lynn F Pearson, 1989, The Northumbrian Pub - an architectural history, p 38