44b Front Street

HER Number

7083

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

44b Front Street

Place

Cullercoats

Map Sheet

NZ37SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

American watercolour artist Winslow Homer is said to have rented a room at 44b Front Street close to his studio at 12 Bank Top, during his stay in Cullercoats in 1881-2.

Easting

436370

Northing

571450

Grid Reference

NZ436370571450

Sources

Archaeological Services University of Durham, 2004, The Bay Hotel, Cullercoats - archaeological desk-top assessment and building recording; Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in Cullercoats (typescript); History of Northumberland, Victoria County Histories Vol VIII pp 280-4; W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton; Illustrated Catalogue of Winslow Homer's English Works; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats; Tony Knipe, 1988, Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures