CWS Soap Works, Colliery Road
CWS Soap Works, Colliery Road
HER Number
1016
District
Gateshead
Site Name
CWS Soap Works, Colliery Road
Place
Dunston
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Chemical Industry Site
Site Type: Specific
Soap Factory
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Once part of a series of ferro-concrete structures built for the Cooperative Wholesale Society (CWS) at Dunston. The complex, which formerly included a flour mill (HER ref. 1668) and grain silos (HER ref. 1624), dates from two periods, 1970-8 and 1911-14. The soap works brings together a modern construction system and a modified Renaissance architectural style. The works was used for a number of years as a hide and skin works but had been demolished by 2000.
Easting
423000
Northing
562600
Grid Reference
NZ423000562600
Sources
<< HER 1016 >> I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 80
Gateshead MBC 1981, Buildings of Interest in Gateshead 1919-1939
Dept. of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special ... Interest ,5/122
I. Ayris, Co-operative Wholesale Society Granary, Silos, Jetty and Soapworks
Wilson & Womersley, Chartered Architects, 1990, Dunston Soap Works - A Case for Demolition report
W.L. Pattison, C Eng, 1985, Old CWS Soap Works, Dunston, Condition Survey
L.G. Mouchal and Partners Ltd, 1921, Hennebique Ferro-Concrete
Gateshead MBC 1981, Buildings of Interest in Gateshead 1919-1939
Dept. of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special ... Interest ,5/122
I. Ayris, Co-operative Wholesale Society Granary, Silos, Jetty and Soapworks
Wilson & Womersley, Chartered Architects, 1990, Dunston Soap Works - A Case for Demolition report
W.L. Pattison, C Eng, 1985, Old CWS Soap Works, Dunston, Condition Survey
L.G. Mouchal and Partners Ltd, 1921, Hennebique Ferro-Concrete