Coxlodge, Kenton Road, The Trap Public House (Coxlodge Hotel)

HER Number:
9968

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Coxlodge, Kenton Road, The Trap Public House (Coxlodge Hotel)

Place:
Coxlodge

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
This public house is one of the few remaining buildings from the original mining village of Coxlodge (HER 13783). Previously known as Coxlodge Hotel, it was built around 1868. The L-shaped building is two storeys tall with a rendered and painted exterior and a slated double roof. Bennison - built around 1865 and operated on a beerhouse licence until 1897. The pub has not changed much. Thomas Ramshaw owned the pub in 1871 and it stayed in that family until the 1950s. LOCAL LIST

Easting:
2304

Northing:
6828

Grid Reference:
NZ23046828

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Newcastle City Council, 2006, Local List of Buildings, Structures, Parks, Gardens and Open Spaces of Special Local Architectural or Historic Interest Supplementary Planning Document; Millie Walker, 1994, Bygone Fawdon and Coxlodge; Bennison, Brian, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 10; Personal comment, A Knox, 2018