1 to 3 Somerset Terrace

HER Number

7844

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

1 to 3 Somerset Terrace

Place

East Boldon

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Terrace

Site Type: Specific

Terrace

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Late Victorian red brick houses. No. 3 is later and of different proportions, form and materials. No. 2 has a painted front. The original windows and classical door cases survive. The boundary wall along Whitburn Terrace is old and buttressed.

Easting

436720

Northing

561210

Grid Reference

NZ436720561210

Sources

North of England Civic Trust on behalf of South Tyneside Council, February 2006, East Boldon Conservation Area Character Appraisal; East Boldon School Centenary 1885-1985; M. Linge, The Story of Boldon; A. Middleton, 1983, Boldon's Witness in Church and Community; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham; W. Wilson, 1935, A Short History of Boldon