Cox Chare, warehouse

HER Number:
1618

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Cox Chare, warehouse

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Warehouse

Site Type: Specific:
Warehouse

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Built between 1830 and 1859 of brick, it is seven storeys high rising from an earlier ashlar plinth. It has a simple eaves gutter and a slated roof. The window openings which are almost square have straight stone lintels and cills. The west elevation to Cox Chare is eleven bays long, the series of loading doors being placed in the fifth bay from the south. The north gable wall fronting Pandon is three bays wide, the central bays containing the series of loading doors. Perhaps constructed by a man called Pollard who had extensive warehouse interests in the area at that time. In 1801 in return for allowing the construction of Forster Street through property he was leasing, Pollard was allowed the use of stone from the town wall. It is thus possible that the stone basements to many of the warehouses in the area may be built of stones from the town wall.

Easting:
425530

Northing:
564020

Grid Reference:
NZ425530564020

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1618 >> Joint Conservation Team, 1976, Survey of Area to the north of Quayside, between Milk Market & Broad..; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 132