North Farmhouse, West Lane

HER Number

7263

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

North Farmhouse, West Lane

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Agricultural Building

Site Type: Specific

Farmhouse

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1725 on lintel. Coursed squared sandstone. Pantiled roof with brick chimneys. Two storeys. Central boarded door under large stone lintel with inscription DP 1725 in shield. Lintels of ground floor windows carved in imitation of voussoirs. Flat stone lintels to smaller first floor windows. Late nineteenth century sash windows. No sills. Low gable parapets formed by large stepped blocks. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

428080

Northing

570980

Grid Reference

NZ428080570980

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 3/16; W.G. Elliott and Edwin Smith, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor and Killingworth, p 80