Hetton Road, Cross House Inn/Burn Hotel

HER Number

15977

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Hetton Road, Cross House Inn/Burn Hotel

Place

Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Eating and Drinking Establishment

Site Type: Specific

Public House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The first pub on the site was the Cross House Inn shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890. There is a presumed stable block on Hetton Road. By 1960 a new reversed C-shaped building had been built, the Burn Hotel. The present building is on another footprint again.

Easting

434450

Northing

548970

Grid Reference

NZ434450548970

Sources

www.houghtonlespring.org.uk; Ordnance Survey second edition, 1890; Ordnance Survey fifth edition, 1960