Benwell Lodge

HER Number

6368

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Benwell Lodge

Place

Benwell

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Detached House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Built c.1750s-60 by Robert Shafto. Split into two units in the 1850s. Demolished early 1960s.

Easting

420790

Northing

565000

Grid Reference

NZ420790565000

Sources

1st edition Ordnance Survey map, T. Faulkner and P. Lowery, 1996, Lost Houses of Newcastle and Northumberland, p 31; Pers Comms I Farrier, 2015 West Newcastle Picture History Collection; NRO/00309/M/7; Newcastle Courant April 1830