Strother House

Strother House

HER Number
6777
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Strother House
Place
Usworth
Map Sheet
NZ35NW
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Farm
Site Type: Specific
Farmstead
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
The first reference to Strother House was in an inquisition on Sit Wilfrid Lawson 1632. Details of the landholding are recorded on an estate plan for the owner, Sir Gilfred Lawson, Bart. The plan is undated but c.1810-1815. The plan shows three buildings arranged around the north, east and west sides of a yard. The present farm comprises a linear range. The two-storey house is of a rough-dressed cobbles with stone quoins, corbelling, gable coping and kneelers, and a slate roof. There is a white washed single storey range to the east which may be the origianl house depicted in the early 19th century.
Easting
432260
Northing
559980
Grid Reference
NZ432260559980
Sources
<<HER 6777 >> Ordnance Survey 1st edition map 1856; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2014, Site south of Newcastle Road (A184) and West of A19 - Archaeological Assessment; Bell's plan of Strother House and fields, c.1810 (DRO D/Bo/9/35)