An £8.7m project to transform a historic Tyneside building into modern offices will complete this year – 200 years after it was a focal point of the birth of the world’s first steam train.
Built around 1880, the Pattern Shop in Newcastle was originally used by the world-famous locomotive designer Robert Stephenson, forming part of the works where the Rocket was built. Now reinvented for modern companies, developers hope the Grade II Listed building will become the ideal base for businesses looking to make their mark on the city’s creative and digital sector, with new images showing how it will look once it opens later this year.
Based in the heart of Stephenson Quarter, the scheme marks the start of the next phase of development on the city centre site by Newcastle City Council and development manager igloo Regeneration. The council owns and will retain the building and further plans for the wider site will be unveiled early this year.
