Tavistock Road

HER Number

13430

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Tavistock Road

Place

Jesmond

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Flats

Site Type: Specific

Flats

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

The 87 dwellings were largely completed in 1902-4 and consist mainly of Tyneside Flats and some two-storey houses. From 1938 to 1967 yellow trolley buses used this road and Lonsdale Terrace as a turning loop for the Osborne Road to Central Station service.

Easting

425220

Northing

566850

Grid Reference

NZ425220566850

Sources

Alan Morgan, 2010, Jesmond from mines to mansions, page 67