Newburn Manor House

Newburn Manor House

HER Number
1291
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Newburn Manor House
Place
Newburn
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
Manor House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
A house traditionally called the Manor House, said to date from c.1600, demolished 1909, apparently situated on the West side of what is now Station Road where is is appears on the First edition Ordnance Survey plan. A photo in the Northumbelrand County History shows a 2-storey building in coursed stone rubble with dressed quoins, and a pantile/stone flag roof. Two fireplaces from the manor are said to have been reinstated at Washington Old Hall. Its recorded residents included Thomas Finney, a surgeon, in the 1850s and Thomas Hayes in 1879.
Easting
416670
Northing
565230
Grid Reference
NZ416670565230
Sources
<< HER 1291 >> W.H. Knowles, 1915, 'Newburn Hall' and 'Manor House', Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XII, 186-199
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Newburn and Newburn Hall Townships, Northumberland County History, XIII, 139-140
T. Faulkner & P. Lowery 1996, Lost Houses of Newcastle and Northumberland, p 55