Sandgate, Sellar’s Entry

Sandgate, Sellar’s Entry

HER Number
6706
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Sandgate, Sellar’s Entry
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Transport
Site Type: Broad
Road Transport Site
Site Type: Specific
Alley
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Post Medieval 1540 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Behind the beer-houses, lodging houses and shops on Sandgate there were numerous alleys, chares or entries, described by Knowles and Boyle in 1890 as 'dark' and 'dingy'.. 'crowded with the miserable dwellings of the very poor'. The keelmen colonised the Sandgate area in the eighteenth century. Bourne recorded that several thousand people, mostly those who worked on the river, lived in Sandgate and the lanes off it. Sellar's Entry lay between Nos. 7 and 8 Sandgate and contained one of the oldest buildings in the neighbourhood. Building in Sellar’s Entry:
Timber, 2 storeys. Jetty beneath first floor with exposed beams. Two entrances at ground floor. Building is perpendicular to Sandgate. Two dormer gables with windows. Partial stone foundation can be seen.
Adjacent building has jetty beneath first floor and two long windows on first floor.
Another has a first floor entrance with stone steps.
Easting
425600
Northing
564100
Grid Reference
NZ425600564100
Sources
<<HER 6706 >> Newcastle City Library Photograph Collection NCL 46424, NCL 4016, NCL 53371; W.H. Knowles and J.R. Boyle, 1890, Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, pp 86-90; H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 164