West Farm, North Road

HER Number

8619

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

West Farm, North Road

Place

East Boldon

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farmstead

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

The farm buildings associated with West Farm's farmhouse (HER 8033) have been replaced by a 1990s brick development of two storeys with pitched roof. There is a dogleg passageway linking North Road to Front Street where evidence of the farm buildings can be seen as scarring on the east wall. The passageway is lined on both sides by limestone and brick walls.

Easting

436130

Northing

561400

Grid Reference

NZ436130561400

Sources

North of England Civic Trust on behalf of South Tyneside Council, February 2006, East Boldon Conservation Area Character Appraisal; East Boldon School Centenary 1885-1985; M. Linge, The Story of Boldon; A. Middleton, 1983, Boldon's Witness in Church and Community; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham; W. Wilson, 1935, A Short History of Boldon