Smailes Farm, Smailes Lane

HER Number

11902

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Smailes Farm, Smailes Lane

Place

Rowlands Gill

Map Sheet

NZ15NE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farm

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map. The farmstead has been replaced by Strathmore Avenue. The Cronk and Stanhope House were built in the farmyard in the 1920s. The stone gate posts of the farm survive in a stone wall at the northern end of Strathmore Avenue.

Easting

416110

Northing

558360

Grid Reference

NZ416110558360

Sources

Gateshead Council, April 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Proposed Rowlands Gill Conservation Area, pp 82-85 (Supplementary Planning Guidance), pp 85-88; Gateshead Council, July 2003, Rowlands Gill Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategy and Character Statement (Appendix to Supplementary Planning Guidance 1), pp 19-24