Fencehouses, Elba

HER Number

5131

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Fencehouses, Elba

Place

Fencehouses

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Estate Building

Site Type: Specific

Estate Cottage

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A rectangular complex of buildings (eight probable houses) and a similar number of associated gardens. Date established not known but the buildings are recorded on an 1812 Lambton Estate map and marked as "Elba" on the 1856 Ordnance Survey 25 inch to 1 mile map. The individual units are all well defined on the 1896 Ordnance Survey map, and on this basis the complex is not considered to be a farmstead. The buildings remained extant until 1920 but three sides of the complex had been demolished by 1940.

Easting

431662

Northing

551408

Grid Reference

NZ431662551408

Sources

<< HER 5131 >> Northern Archaeological Associates, 2001, Sunderland Central Route, Multi Modal Study; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2009, Lambton Cokeworks Sunderland - Archaeological Monitoring