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:
Eating and Drinking Establishment

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

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:
426280

Northing:
565450

Grid Reference:
NZ426280565450

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