Front Street, Laburnum House
Front Street, Laburnum House
HER Number
7007
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Front Street, Laburnum House
Place
Hetton-le-Hole
Map Sheet
NZ34NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
Engineers House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
House circa 1810. Painted coursed squared limestone, roof of concrete tiles. 4 sash windows with projecting stone cills and flat stone lintels. Double door in later porch. Yellow brick chimney. A blue plaque at the east end of the north front records that nicholas Wood (1795-1865) colliery engineer and partner of George Stephenson, lived here during the sinkning of the Hetton Lyons pit in 1822. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
435300
Northing
547390
Grid Reference
NZ435300547390
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 8/8; Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas