Marsden Cottage

HER Number

6813

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Marsden Cottage

Place

Marsden

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Detached House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition as a house with its own drive and parkland and lodge to the south west. There is a photograph of the cottage in "A Picture of Old Marsden" 1991. The site of the house is visible as slight earthworks. Home of T. Forest, shipowner.

Easting

439250

Northing

565810

Grid Reference

NZ439250565810

Sources

<< HER 6813 >> The Arbeia Society, 2004, Archaeological Survey of the coast from South Shields to Whitburn