93 Sheriff's Highway

93 Sheriff's Highway

HER Number
7591
District
Gateshead
Site Name
93 Sheriff's Highway
Place
Sheriff Hill
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
This 2-bay dwelling is of coursed, tooled local sandstone with plinth and quoins. There is a cill band to the 1st floor and a neat pilaster doorcase with deeply moulded cornice to the right of the front elevation. The Welsh slate roof descends to a coved cornice at the eaves. The design is strongly based on nos. 97-99 nearby, which is earlier. A new stone wall has been erected to the front which, whilst poorly detailed, is an improvement on the previous brick wall. Unfortunately all the original windows have been replaced with plastic ones. DATES c1860s STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The building is part of the surviving vernacular stone backbone of Sheriff Hill, evoking the heyday of this lively 19th century village, and expressing its early development, which was significantly based around quarrying LOCAL LIST
Easting
426590
Northing
560620
Grid Reference
NZ426590560620
Sources
Gateshead Council Local List X20/LL/223