Eighton Lodge

HER Number

19114

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Eighton Lodge

Place

Eighton

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Country House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Physical Evidence

Description

Eighton Lodge is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map as a detached house set within its own grounds, with a carriageway giving onto the Newcastle to Durham Road (HER4125) to the southwest. It forms the southwestern part of the village of Low Eighton (HER661). The two storey stone building is now a residential care home. It was formerly an unmarried mother and baby home in the 1970s and 1980s.

Easting

426703

Northing

557643

Grid Reference

NZ426703557643

Sources

Ordnance Survey First Edition map