Throckley, Cutty Coats Farm

HER Number:
1599

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Throckley, Cutty Coats Farm

Place:
Throckley

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Farm

Site Type: Specific:
Farmstead

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C17/C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Cutty Coats farm is a group of linear farm buildings which faces south and stretches for a total length of 125 feet east-west. The present range of buildings show signs of many alterations, with bricked up openings and repairs, its plan deriving from piecemeal modifications rather than purposeful design. It is a primitive patchwork of extension, rebuilding and modification, mainly rubble built but using a variety of other materials. Part of its fabric could date from the early 18th century, even the 17th century. Whilst linear farms were probably characteristic of Northumbrian farms of the 17th century and 18th century, some were still being built in 19th century. One of the oldest structures in the Throckley area, it is on a site of long standing: Cuddy Coats Hall was a medieval farmhouse of great historic value, dating to the 14th century.

Easting:
1575

Northing:
6746

Grid Reference:
NZ15756746

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1599 >> R.H. Bird, 1976, Cutty Coats Farm, Throckley, Northumberland in Archaeological Newsbulletin for Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland and Lancashire-north-of-the-sands, No. 13, April 1976, pp 13-14; Evening Chronicle, Thursday October 11 2001, p 30 S.M. Linsley, Farmsteads - 4: Cutty Coats & Leaplish