Gateshead, Greenesfield Railway Works, eastern engine shed

HER Number:
16151

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Greenesfield Railway Works, eastern engine shed

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Railway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific:
Engine Shed

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
1852 workshop. These were some of the earliest structures on the Greenesfield site, constructed following the transition of use from a passenger station into a repairing workshop. The building contained decorative cast-ironwork in the form of columns terminating at rood level with simple fretted arched brackets. The ironwork is likely to have been produced by the Gateshead firm of Hawks Crawshay, which supplied much of the ribbing for the High Level Bridge.The north façade was sandstone ashlar with buttresses and heavy rusticated surrounds to doors and windows.

Easting:
2517

Northing:
6339

Grid Reference:
NZ25176339

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2001, Riverview: Greenesfield, Gateshead, Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Statement in WSP Environmental Ltd. Environmental Statement; Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2003, Greenesfield Railway Works, Gateshead, Recording and Watching Brief