Collingwood Street
Collingwood Street
HER Number
6495
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Collingwood Street
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Road Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Road
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
Built by Newcastle Corporation in 1809 to link Cloth Market to Westgate Road Occupied by banks at the end of the nineteenth century. Named after Lord Collingwood, the hero of Trafalgar.
Easting
424950
Northing
564040
Grid Reference
NZ424950564040
Sources
N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (second edition); D. Lovie, 1997, The Buildings of Grainger Town; I. Ayris, 1997, A City of Palaces; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 161