Gateshead, Half Moon Lane, Wheelers

HER Number:
7914

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Half Moon Lane, Wheelers

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

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:
Public house. Three storeys, slate roof, six chimneys. Curved building on corner plot. Date stone on parapet on roof PW 1891. Part of a single composition by James M Robinson with shops and a pub at either end (see HER 7915). The two pubs were thought to be connected by an east-west cellar passage along the northern side of the range. Wheelers was damaged by fire circa 2000 and was subsequently demolished.

Easting:
2543

Northing:
6352

Grid Reference:
NZ25436352

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Red Box Design Group, 2000, plans and photographs