The Old Cottage and Stables, Front Street
The Old Cottage and Stables, Front Street
HER Number
7246
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
The Old Cottage and Stables, Front Street
Place
Backworth
Map Sheet
NZ37SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Two houses, now stores and stable. Late eighteenth century. Roughly coursed rubble sandstone with quoins to upper two-thirds. Welsh slate roofs with brick chimneys. House is of two storeys. Paired boarded central doors with blocked rectangular overlight with stone lintel. Late nineteenth century sash windows with projecting stone sills and wide stone lintels. Wrought iron gutter brackets with one section of wooden gutter. Stables at right are of one storey. Boarded door at right under wooden lintel. Two ventilation slits. One brick chimney. Gable to street contains high square window. Right return has boarded door and overlight and a window with wide glazing bars in the wooden section inserted in cart entrance. Truncated brick chimney. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
430110
Northing
572250
Grid Reference
NZ430110572250
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 4/24