Fenham, Westgate Road, No. 445, tram shed

HER Number:
10767

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Fenham, Westgate Road, No. 445, tram shed

Place:
Fenham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Tramway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific:
Tram Shed

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition. Built 1903 two years after the opening of the Newcastle Corporation Tramways but ahead of the 1907 extension of the network to Fenham. A building recording was undertaken in 2015 ahead of conversion. The forecourt on Westgate Road is presently used as a car wash. The building is concrete rendered and has fine round-headed arched windows and other architectural detail. Largely utilitarian external elevations. Following recording it has been concluded that, apart from the rebuilding of the north end the tram sheds survive in more or less their overall form with altered interiors.

Easting:
2258

Northing:
6461

Grid Reference:
NZ22586461

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Shown on Ordnance Survey Third Edition of 1919; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2015, Wingrove Tram Sheds, Fenham, Newcastle - Historic Building Recording