Sandpiper. Whitburn Bents Road

Sandpiper. Whitburn Bents Road

HER Number
12460
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Sandpiper. Whitburn Bents Road
Place
Whitburn
Map Sheet
NZ46SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Agricultural Dwelling
Site Type: Specific
Farm Labourers Cottage
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
By 1896 two groups of cottages had been built at either end of the fishermen's cottages (HER 12459), perpendicular to the main rows. The northern group was demolished in 1938 along with the fishermen's cottages by Sir Hedworth Williamson. The southern group survived and are now a single house known as Sandpiper. Sandpiper was originally a pair of farmworkers cottages. The building is of local limestone and is rather quaint and charming. Small gabled dormers. The windows, gutters and barge boards have been replaced in uPVC. The original boundary walls, also limestone, survive.
Easting
440750
Northing
561070
Grid Reference
NZ440750561070
Sources
Sunderland City Council, 2007, Whitburn Bents Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Strategy; T. Corfe, 1973, A History of Sunderland; T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914; G.E. Miller and S.T. Milburn, 1988, Sunderland, River, Town & People; P. O'Brien and P. Gibson, 1997, The Archive Photographs Series: Seaburn and Roker; N. Pevsner, 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson); S. Reeder, 1992, Whitburn and Roker in old picture postcards