Greenesfield Railway Works, parapet wall

Greenesfield Railway Works, parapet wall

HER Number
16152
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Greenesfield Railway Works, parapet wall
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Railway Engineering Site
Site Type: Specific
Railway Engineering Works
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
The remains of a short (c.10m) upstanding section of coped walling built of red sandstone on a foundation of firebrick waste. The wall appears to coincide with sheds which developed before 1894 alongside the former Brandling Junction Railway incline. The buiildings were probably demolished in 1906 with the construction of King Edward VII rail bridge leaving a reduced parapet wall. The red sandstone may have been imported from Cumberland, and the firebrick waste is likely to derive from the Rabbit Banks Fire Brick Works/ Stourbridge Fire Brick and Sanitary Pipe Works in Pipewellgate.
Easting
424850
Northing
563110
Grid Reference
NZ424850563110
Sources
Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2001, Riverview: Greenesfield, Gateshead, Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Statement in WSP Environmental Ltd. Environmental Statement; Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2003, Greenesfield Railway Works, Gateshead, Recording and Watching Brief