Gosforth Garden Village

HER Number

12740

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Gosforth Garden Village

Place

Gosforth

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Model Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Garden Village

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Built by the North Eastern Railway in 1921 to the Garden Suburb model (a village laid out systematically with spacious garden-like surroundings). Includes Harewood Road, Grange Road, Strathmore Road, Langholm Road, Linthorpe Road Road, Granville Road plus some houses on the Great North Road and Broadway East.

Easting

424420

Northing

569100

Grid Reference

NZ424420569100

Sources

Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, page 35