Farnacres

HER Number:
7718

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Farnacres

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
House

Site Type: Specific:
Country House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Farnacres in the Team Valley, passed to the Liddells of Ravensworth in 1671. In the eighteenth century it was the home of Nicholas Watson (d.1795), their bailiff. Nineteenth and twentieth century tenants were Rev. RH Williamson, John Barras (brewer), Mark Archer (Dunston engineer) and FW Bernard, the "Low Fell Giant", the last occupant. It was a long house with a sweeping verandah. It had a "museum" of stuffed birds, rocks and minerals. Described in 1932 as "a pleasant ivy-covered house or hall, which stands in the midst of a well-kept lawn". From the 1930s the Team Valley Trading Estate encroached more and more, and Farnacres was demolished in the 1960s.

Easting:
423940

Northing:
560000

Grid Reference:
NZ423940560000

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Meadow, P & Waterson, E. 1993, ‘Lost Houses of County Durham’; D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town, pp 95-98