Newcastle, Bigg Market, Coach and Horses

HER Number:
11205

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Bigg Market, Coach and Horses

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The Bigg Market Brewery, advertised in the 1840s and 1850s, seems to have been connected to the Coach and Horses. There were warehouses and beer stores in the yard. By the early 1870s the former brewery was a candle factory. The inn was altered in 1875 and closed in 1884.

Easting:
247

Northing:
641

Grid Reference:
NZ247641

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 75; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 19