Bede Cottage and Bede House, Monkton Lane

HER Number

8072

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Bede Cottage and Bede House, Monkton Lane

Place

Monkton

Map Sheet

NZ36SW

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Agricultural Building

Site Type: Specific

Farmhouse

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Bede House forms the original farmhouse and associated stable range for Monkton Farm (HER 8567), which was extended and part truncated in the 18th century with the construction of Monkton Farmhouse (HER 8168), immediately to the east. Bede House, formerly Bede Cottage, was constructed in stone rubble bonded with clay and represents one of the few surviving cruck timber frame buildings in Tyne and Wear.

Easting

432120

Northing

563750

Grid Reference

NZ432120563750

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 2/96; North of England Civic Trust on behalf of South Tyneside Council, March 2006, Monkton Conservation Area Character Appraisal; Kear, D. C. (1984). Bede Cottage and Monkton Farm, Monkton. Archaeologia Aeliana Series 5. Vol 12, pp. 181-207; N. Pevsner and E. Williamson, 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham (second edition); Ryder, P. 2015. Bede House, Monkton Lane - Historic Building Recording. The Archaeological Practice.