Gibside Estate, Watergate Cottage
Gibside Estate, Watergate Cottage
HER Number
12365
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gibside Estate, Watergate Cottage
Place
Gibside
Map Sheet
NZ15NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Lodge
Site Type: Specific
Lodge
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Buried foundations of a lodge or cottage. Built in the 1780s, the building is shown on Fryer's map if 1803 as a simple rectangular building with a small enclosure intruding into the Warren Haugh. By the mid 19th century it had been extended to the north-west creating an :-shape. By 1895 it had been extended to the south-west. Demolished in the 1970s.
Easting
417020
Northing
558270
Grid Reference
NZ417020558270
Sources
Harry Beamish, Autumn 1993, Summary Table - Gibside; Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2011, New car parking Warren Haugh and West Wood, Gibside - Archaeological Assessment