23-24 Fawcett Street, Walton's Hotel

HER Number

17782

District

Sunderland

Site Name

23-24 Fawcett Street, Walton's Hotel

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Hotel

Site Type: Specific

Hotel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Former Walton’s Hotel which was the home of James Laing a shipbuilder until the early 1860s when he moved to Thornhill House.

Easting

439770

Northing

556940

Grid Reference

NZ439770556940

Sources

Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates