Structure Name: Amos Spoor Bonded Warehouses

Description:
 

Seven storey, twenty-three bay bonded warehouse building in Flemish bond brick. Usually known as Hanover Street Warehouses, despite their frontage being on Close. Currently derelict and in poor condition, but there are plans to develop them.
 

Extant: Yes

Legal Status: Listed Building Grade II

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Eastings: 424820m (view map)

Northings: 563585m (view map)

Position Accuracy: 100m

Positional Confidence: Absolute Certainty

Street Address
 

Hanover Street
 

Structure Types Identified: BONDED WAREHOUSE

Chronology:

• 1841 - 1844   Construction of warehouses.
      Entities Involved:
            Spoor, Amos: Commissioned works.
• 1970s   Warehouses abandoned.
• 1980s   Warehouses 10-30 were demolished and replaced with a terraced garden.
• 1997   Warehouse 50 severely damaged by fire and partly demolished.

Notes
 

There were five warehouses here, numbered 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50. Only 40 now survives.
 

References:

• Images of England
• Pevsner, N., Richmond, I., Grundy, J., McCombie, G., Ryder, P. and Welfare, H. (2001) The Buildings of England: Northumberland. London, Penguin Books, p.469

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