13-19 Sunderland Road, Southgarth Cottages

HER Number

11787

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

13-19 Sunderland Road, Southgarth Cottages

Place

Westoe

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Estate Building

Site Type: Specific

Estate Cottage

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Service accomodation for Southgarth West and East. Single storey cottages. Picturesque and romantic. Arts & Crafts style. Deeply detailed estate cottages, now thick with dirt from traffic. Heavy Welsh slate roofs with overhanging eaves, swept half-timbered gable, stout chimneys, small low-pitched dormers. Flanking gateways and porch brackets. Boot scrapers. A richly stained limestone wall bounds the Southgarth estate.

Easting

437050

Northing

565840

Grid Reference

NZ437050565840

Sources

North East Civic Trust & South Tyneside Council, 2002, Westoe Conservation Area Character Appraisal; South Tyneside Council, 2006, Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan, Draft SPD 10; A. Flagg, date unknown, 'Westoe Village', unpublished text held by South Shields Local Studies Library; G. Hodgson, 1924, History of South Shields; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham