Heaton, Coast Road, Wills Tobacco Factory

HER Number:
5162

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Heaton, Coast Road, Wills Tobacco Factory

Place:
Heaton

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Factory

Site Type: Specific:
Tobacco Factory

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Former W.D. and H.O. Wills tobacco manufacturing factory built of red brick and Portland stone in the 1940s but in an Art Deco style designed prior to the Second World War. Manufacturing ended in the 1980s with the national decline in the cigarette market. Now converted to apartments. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2807

Northing:
6698

Grid Reference:
NZ28076698

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5162 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 9/809 I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 80 Wildblood Macdonald Partnership, 1991, The Wills Building, Coast Road, Newcastle, Case for the partial demolition...