Tyne and Wear HER(5162): Heaton, Coast Road, Wills Tobacco Factory - Details
5162
Newcastle
Heaton, Coast Road, Wills Tobacco Factory
Heaton
NZ26NE
Industrial
Factory
Tobacco Factory
Modern
C20
Extant Building
Former W.D. and H.O. Wills tobacco manufacturing factory built of red brick and Portland stone in the 1940s but in an Art Deco style designed prior to the Second World War. Manufacturing ended in the 1980s with the national decline in the cigarette market. Now converted to apartments. LISTED GRADE 2
2807
6698
NZ28076698
<< HER 5162 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 9/809
I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 80
Wildblood Macdonald Partnership, 1991, The Wills Building, Coast Road, Newcastle, Case for the partial demolition...