Kenton Road, The Trap Public House (Coxlodge Hotel)
Kenton Road, The Trap Public House (Coxlodge Hotel)
HER Number
9968
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Kenton Road, The Trap Public House (Coxlodge Hotel)
Place
Coxlodge
Map Sheet
NZ26NW
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
This public house is one of the few remaining buildings from the original mining village of Coxlodge (HER 13783). Previously known as Coxlodge Hotel, it was built around 1868. The L-shaped building is two storeys tall with a rendered and painted exterior and a slated double roof. Bennison - built around 1865 and operated on a beerhouse licence until 1897. The pub has not changed much.
Thomas Ramshaw owned the pub in 1871 and it stayed in that family until the 1950s.
LOCAL LIST
Thomas Ramshaw owned the pub in 1871 and it stayed in that family until the 1950s.
LOCAL LIST
Easting
423040
Northing
568280
Grid Reference
NZ423040568280
Sources
Newcastle City Council, 2006, Local List of Buildings, Structures, Parks, Gardens and Open Spaces of Special Local Architectural or Historic Interest Supplementary Planning Document; Millie Walker, 1994, Bygone Fawdon and Coxlodge; Bennison, Brian, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 10; Personal comment, A Knox, 2018