Haymarket, Crow's Nest Hotel Public House

HER Number:
10773

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Haymarket, Crow's Nest Hotel Public House

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

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. Known as Inventions and Bar Oz in the 1980s and 1990s. Has now reverted to its original name again. In 2014 the first and second floors were recorded by ASUD along with the adjoining Line Building. The rooms contained elaborate plasterwork decoration. On the first floor this was largely hidden by subdivisions and suspended ceiling. On the second floor there is a large panelled ballroom with a decorated plaster vault.

Easting:
424780

Northing:
564900

Grid Reference:
NZ424780564900

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Shown on Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, pp 5-6; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 198; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2014, Line Building East, Newcastle upon Tyne, Building Recording