Structure Name: Cluny Whisky Bonded Warehouse

Description:
 

Former flax mill, recently renovated. Four and a half storey well-dressed sandstone building, with tall, flat-arched windows. On one side the warehouse fronts onto the Ouseburn. This side has 12 bays, and a lower entrance bay to the left. The ground floor windows are all recessed in cambered arches. Extensions have been added to the north and south sides.
 

Extant: Yes

Legal Status: Listed Building Grade II

Location: Byker, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Eastings: 426230m (view map)

Northings: 564550m (view map)

Position Accuracy: 100m

Positional Confidence: Absolute Certainty

Street Address
 

36 Lime Street
 

Structure Types Identified: BONDED WAREHOUSE, CHIMNEY, FLAX MILL, STILL HOUSE

Historical Background
 

'The Cluny Warehouse was built as ‘The Northumberland Flax Mill' in 1848, to the design of John Dobson for the firm of Plummer & Cooke. Originally steam powered, the adjacent free-standing, truncated but recently restored chimney formed part of the complex. Its life as a flax mill was short, and the building became a Whisky store; it is now better known as the Cluny Warehouse. It was internally divided into work units and a music venue and bar.'
[Stafford Linsley's annotation]
 

Chronology:

• 1848   Construction of flax mill.
      Entities Involved:
            Dobson, John: Architect.
            Messrs Plummer & Cooke: Owners. Commissioned works.

Notes
 

The south extension to the warehouse closed off a passage which ran between it and Leetham's Mill.

see http://www.timarchive.freeuk.com/html/body_pubs.htm
 

References:

• Images of England

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