Killingworth Cottage, West Lane

HER Number

7265

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Killingworth Cottage, West Lane

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

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

House. Late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Coursed squared red sandstone with quoins. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and two ashlar chimneys. Two storeys. Central 4-panelled door with ornamental overlight. Projecting stone lintels to door and to sash windows. Projecting stone sills. Paired wooden eaves gutter brackets; renewed gutter. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

428540

Northing

570910

Grid Reference

NZ428540570910

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 3/18; W.G. Elliott, Bygone Days of Longenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor, Killingworth, Palmersville and Benton Square, Book 2, p 71; W.G. Elliott and Edwin Smith, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor and Killingworth, p 86