Tyne and Wear HER(6694): Bigg Market, Golden Lion Inn - Details
6694
Newcastle
Bigg Market, Golden Lion Inn
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Inn
Inn
POST MEDIEVAL
Elizabethan 1558 to 1603
Documentary Evidence
Bigg Market, Golden Lion Inn
First and second floors have two rows of windows each. Those on the first floor are sashes. In between these are signs. Jetty beneath the second floor. Entrance door on ground floor (second bay from left). Large rounded window in third bay. First and fourth bays have large windows.
Timber, 3 storeys
424800
564100
NZ424800564100
Photographs, NCL 52666 and NCL 33786; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 19; Graham, F. 1959, Old Inns and Taverns of Northumberland