Newcastle, The Side, Burns Tavern (The Empress)

HER Number:
6687

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, The Side, Burns Tavern (The Empress)

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The Side, Burns Tavern At the head of The Side. Two dominant gables on the front. Second floor windows differ beneath each gable. The right hand side window has a prominent elongated lintel. The bottom of the second floor has a jetty, and the ground floor two shop frontages. In a drawing by ?Matthew Reed in 1870, the left hand side of the building is known as Burns Tavern.

Easting:
24995

Northing:
63966

Grid Reference:
NZ2499563966

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Photograph, Newcastle Local Studies Library; Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Bennison, Brian, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume One, The Central Area, p 43