Howdon Gas Works

HER Number

6980

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Howdon Gas Works

Place

Howdon

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Gas Works

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition map of 1919. The brick lodges, now empty and boarded up, are quite decorative, with central gable and bay window. Decorative brick boundary wall to the gas works along Howdon Lane.

Easting

432440

Northing

566810

Grid Reference

NZ432440566810

Sources

Ordnance Survey third edition map 1919