Duke's Cottages, Front Street,

Duke's Cottages, Front Street,

HER Number
7245
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Duke's Cottages, Front Street,
Place
Backworth
Map Sheet
NZ37SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Estate Building
Site Type: Specific
Estate Cottage
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Six estate houses, now four dwellings. Circa 1840 for Duke of Northumberland. Restored 1980 by J. & D. Darbishire for Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Some rubble in ground floor between each pair of houses. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. One storey and attic. Boarded doors. Stone-mullioned casement windows and sash window in gabled dormer over vehicle entrance. Three chimney stacks. Wall in front is of rubble sandstone has roughly dressed round stone coping. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
430010
Northing
572260
Grid Reference
NZ430010572260
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 3/23 and 4/23