Blackburn Edge

HER Number:
16384

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Blackburn Edge

Place:
Sunniside

Map Sheet:
NZ25NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Industrial House

Site Type: Specific:
Mill House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
House overlooking the Black Burn. Saint Bean, a miller, lived here with his wife Mary in 1836. His family was from Morpeth. By 1851 he had become a flour dealer and shopkeeper. The family had a grocer's shop here until the 1880s. Their son Robert set up a grocer's shop at Hill Row in 1860. The house had gone by 1891, leaving only outbuildings and a greenhouse. Within a few years Sunniside House was built and took over the smallholding.

Easting:
420790

Northing:
558660

Grid Reference:
NZ420790558660

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Front Street, Sunniside, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/frontst.html