Bigg Market, Golden Lion Inn
Bigg Market, Golden Lion Inn
HER Number
6694
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Bigg Market, Golden Lion Inn
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commercial
Site Type: Broad
Inn
Site Type: Specific
Inn
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Elizabethan 1558 to 1603
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Bigg Market, Golden Lion Inn
First and second floors have two rows of windows each. Those on the first floor are sashes. In between these are signs. Jetty beneath the second floor. Entrance door on ground floor (second bay from left). Large rounded window in third bay. First and fourth bays have large windows.
Timber, 3 storeys
First and second floors have two rows of windows each. Those on the first floor are sashes. In between these are signs. Jetty beneath the second floor. Entrance door on ground floor (second bay from left). Large rounded window in third bay. First and fourth bays have large windows.
Timber, 3 storeys
Easting
424800
Northing
564100
Grid Reference
NZ424800564100
Sources
Photographs, NCL 52666 and NCL 33786; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 19; Graham, F. 1959, Old Inns and Taverns of Northumberland