Newcastle, Nun's Gate Brewery

HER Number:
11064

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Nun's Gate Brewery

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Inn

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Francis Cochrane, licensee of the Clayton Arms and an attorney's clerk, brewed here. In 1851 a joiner in Nun Street was selling the plant of 'a compact brewery, capable of brewing about twenty half-barrels, together with the whole of the materials".

Easting:
24711

Northing:
64246

Grid Reference:
NZ2471164246

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 24