6-24 Clayton Street West, NE1
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6-24 Clayton Street West, NE1
Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 29 Oct 2013
Built c 1837, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Plain Clayton Street design, but these buildings still retain their original wells, bridges and railings to the street, which gives them a much grander appearance than Grainger's other terraces, which usually had shops on the ground floor. The northern section (shown in the photo) was the Crown Hotel (previously the Crown Inn); it closed in 1967. The southern section - see Image - was the Alexandra Temperance Hotel up to the late 1880s, then The Metropole, which closed in 1920 to become the Newcastle Farmers Club. In 1979-82 the buildings were refurbished as housing association flats. The buildings are Grade II listed http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1355228 . The Buildings of Grainger Town - No.80. See Image
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Image Location
Latitude
54.969755
Longitude
-1.61961