Grey Street, Butcher Market

HER Number

12745

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Grey Street, Butcher Market

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Market

Site Type: Specific

Meat Market

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Meat market of 1808. Demolished to create Grey Street and Upper Dean Street. Replaced by New Market (Grainger Market, HER 8821).The old Butcher Market is shown on Thomas Oliver's map of 1830.

Easting

424960

Northing

564190

Grid Reference

NZ424960564190

Sources

Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, page 17 and 141