A series of enclosed settlements located within a wider prehistoric field system of possible stock enclosures. Three of the enclosures contain ring ditches which may represent the remains of round houses. The enclosures potentially date to the Iron Age and Romano-British periods. Spelt wheat has been recovered from soil samples taken from archaeological features.
Site Name
Burdon Lane, Prehistoric Enclosures
Site Type: Specific
Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement
HER Number
17809
Form of Evidence
Physical Evidence
YEAR1
2019
English, British
ADDITINF
Y
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Defence
COMP1
Rachel Grahame
CONDITION
Fair
DAY1
20
District
N Tyneside
Easting
437010
Grid ref figure
8
HISTORY_TOPIC
World Wars
LANDUSE
Building
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Concrete
MONTH1
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
569850
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966
Place
Tynemouth
Description
This underground structure was reported to the HER by North Tyneside Council's Planning Enforcement team. It is constructed from reinforced concrete and consists of an underground room; the access was not identified. The structure was discovered during building works to construct a rear two storey extension (planning reference 18/01428/FUL), and was flooded, and severely damaged during its discovery. The builder hoped to incorporate it into the scheme.
The structure was interpreted as an air raid shelter, but is perhaps too well constructed to be a WWII domestic shelter. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map series shows a new square structure in the rear garden of the property appearing between the 1937 and 1955 maps, against the rear boundary and in the location of the new extension. This was in use as a garage at the time of the planning application.
Site Type: Broad
Civil Defence Site
SITEDESC
This underground structure was reported to the HER by North Tyneside Council's Planning Enforcement team. It is constructed from reinforced concrete and consists of an underground room; the access was not identified. The structure was discovered during building works to construct a rear two storey extension (planning reference 18/01428/FUL), and was flooded, and severely damaged during its discovery. The builder hoped to incorporate it into the scheme.
The structure was interpreted as an air raid shelter, but is perhaps too well constructed to be a WWII domestic shelter. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map series shows a new square structure in the rear garden of the property appearing between the 1937 and 1955 maps, against the rear boundary and in the location of the new extension. This was in use as a garage at the time of the planning application.
Site Name
39 Percy Gardens, air raid shelter
Site Type: Specific
Air Raid Shelter
HER Number
17808
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map 1955-1966
SURVIVAL
60-79%
YEAR1
2019
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Rachel Grahame
Crossref
7130
DAY1
01
District
Sunderland
Easting
438150
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Thoroughfare
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MONTH1
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
558550
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Southwick
Description
This is the churchyard of the parish Church of Holy Trinity, and is shown on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 1870-95 as a small enclosure around the church. On the OS 1:2500 map of 1896-97, the graveyard has been extended to the west, and a rectory built to the north (HER 17349). The graveyard now has a road built in the 1960s, Northern Way, running N-S through it. The eastern part remains associated with the church, whilst the western part has been used for recreation but is now scrub.
Site Type: Broad
Cemetery
SITEDESC
This is the churchyard of the parish Church of Holy Trinity, and is shown on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 1870-95 as a small enclosure around the church. On the OS 1:2500 map of 1896-97, the graveyard has been extended to the west, and a rectory built to the north (HER 17349). The graveyard now has a road built in the 1960s, Northern Way, running N-S through it. The eastern part remains associated with the church, whilst the western part has been used for recreation but is now scrub.
Site Name
Church of Holy Trinity churchyard
Site Type: Specific
Churchyard
HER Number
17807
Form of Evidence
Structure
SURVIVAL
60-79%
YEAR1
2019
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Rachel Grahame
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
DAY1
01
DAY2
31
District
N Tyneside
Easting
435050
Grid ref figure
10
LANDUSE
Recreational Usage
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MONTH1
10
MONTH2
1
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
568530
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
North Shields
Description
This cemetery is shown on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 1861. A lodge is located at the main entrance on the south side giving onto Albion Street. The cemetery is shown as laid out with paths bordered by trees, and a series of small structures are shown along the western edge. On the Ordnance Survey 1:528 Town Plans of 1859 and 1860, these are shown on the western and northern edges of the cemetery and labelled as 'Tombs'. A small separate rectangular enclosure is shown in the centre of the cemetery with three grey squares marked in it.
The first burial, of Mrs Atkinson, took place in 1833 (Newcastle Journal, Saturday 29 June 1833), in what was then a commercially run burial ground 'originated upon a principle similar to that of the Westgate Cemetery'. Shares in the cemetery were being advertised from 1849 onwards. The last interment was that of the ashes of Miss Elizabeth Ann Atkinson, granddaughter of Mrs Atkinson, in 1939 (North Tyneside Herald & Post, Wednesday 19 May 1999).
The OS 1:2500 1940 map shows the name as 'South Preston Cemetery'. The Shields Daily News of Wednesday 15 October 1941 references the change of name. It is no longer named on the OS 1:2500 1970 map, indicating that it had gone out of use. Google Earth aerial photos show that it has been cleared of grave markers, and the northern part is in use by the neighbouring Spring Gardens Primary School.
Site Type: Broad
Cemetery
SITEDESC
This cemetery is shown on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map of 1861. A lodge is located at the main entrance on the south side giving onto Albion Street. The cemetery is shown as laid out with paths bordered by trees, and a series of small structures are shown along the western edge. On the Ordnance Survey 1:528 Town Plans of 1859 and 1860, these are shown on the western and northern edges of the cemetery and labelled as 'Tombs'. A small separate rectangular enclosure is shown in the centre of the cemetery with three grey squares marked in it.
The first burial, of Mrs Atkinson, took place in 1833 (Newcastle Journal, Saturday 29 June 1833), in what was then a commercially run burial ground 'originated upon a principle similar to that of the Westgate Cemetery'. Shares in the cemetery were being advertised from 1849 onwards. The last interment was that of the ashes of Miss Elizabeth Ann Atkinson, granddaughter of Mrs Atkinson, in 1939 (North Tyneside Herald & Post, Wednesday 19 May 1999).
The OS 1:2500 1940 map shows the name as 'South Preston Cemetery'. The Shields Daily News of Wednesday 15 October 1941 references the change of name. It is no longer named on the OS 1:2500 1970 map, indicating that it had gone out of use. Google Earth aerial photos show that it has been cleared of grave markers, and the northern part is in use by the neighbouring Spring Gardens Primary School.
Site Name
North Shields and Tynemouth General Cemetery / South Preston
Stables and coach house constructed in the 1850s. Hand-made brick in an English Garden bond style. The heads and cills of the windows and doors are sandstone, Welsh Blue slate roof. Ashlar sandstone footings on south-east facing gable. Carriage and tack room roofless with flagged sandstone floor, plaster and wood panelling, sash window and external shutters. Brick corner fireplace and chimney. Access to stable. Stable has 20th century folding doors, two corner hay racks, partial panelling and concrete floor. Hayloft located above stable, external access only. Rooms with brick-built range, Belfast sink, sash window and a wooden staircase to a garret with a partial boarded floor. Three separate outbuildings with lean-to Welsh Blue slate roofs that are partially collapsed.
Site Type: Broad
Road Transport Site
SITEDESC
Stables and coach house constructed in the 1850s. Hand-made brick in an English Garden bond style. The heads and cills of the windows and doors are sandstone, Welsh Blue slate roof. Ashlar sandstone footings on south-east facing gable. Carriage and tack room roofless with flagged sandstone floor, plaster and wood panelling, sash window and external shutters. Brick corner fireplace and chimney. Access to stable. Stable has 20th century folding doors, two corner hay racks, partial panelling and concrete floor. Hayloft located above stable, external access only. Rooms with brick-built range, Belfast sink, sash window and a wooden staircase to a garret with a partial boarded floor. Three separate outbuildings with lean-to Welsh Blue slate roofs that are partially collapsed.
Site Name
8 Tynemouth Terrace, Coach House
Site Type: Specific
Coach House
HER Number
17805
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
Unknown, 2019. Historic Record of the derelict former Stable and Outbuilding adjacent to 8 Tynemouth Terrace
YEAR1
2019
YEAR2
2020
English, British
Class
Defence
COMP1
Rachel Grahame
CONDITION
Good
DAY1
24
District
Gateshead
Easting
418210
Grid ref figure
8
HISTORY_TOPIC
World Wars
LANDUSE
Verge
Map Sheet
NZ16SE
MONTH1
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563500
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Second World War 1939 to 1945
Place
Blaydon
Description
Spigot mortar emplacement - pit or emplacement surrounding a concrete pedestal or 'thimble' which was used to mount a spigot mortar. Deployed by the Home Guard in WW2 as an anti invasion measure.
This example was notified to the HER in September 2019 by a member of the public, who had been informed about it by a long term resident of the area. It is located on the south side of Bridge Street, just to the east of Cochran Street. The spigot mortar may have been positioned to defend Blaydon Bridge against an attack from the east. The houses which had previously occupied the site on the south side of Bridge Street were demolished in 1935 as part of a road widening scheme.
Site Type: Broad
Gun Emplacement
SITEDESC
Spigot mortar emplacement - pit or emplacement surrounding a concrete pedestal or 'thimble' which was used to mount a spigot mortar. Deployed by the Home Guard in WW2 as an anti invasion measure.
This example was notified to the HER in September 2019 by a member of the public, who had been informed about it by a long term resident of the area. It is located on the south side of Bridge Street, just to the east of Cochran Street. The spigot mortar may have been positioned to defend Blaydon Bridge against an attack from the east. The houses which had previously occupied the site on the south side of Bridge Street were demolished in 1935 as part of a road widening scheme.
Site Name
Bridge Street, Spigot Mortar Emplacement
Site Type: Specific
Spigot Mortar Emplacement
HER Number
17804
Form of Evidence
Structure
SURVIVAL
80-99%
YEAR1
2019
English, British
ADDITINF
Y
Class
Maritime
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
2215, 15332, 17802
DAY1
26
District
N Tyneside
Easting
436480
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Coastland
Map Sheet
NZ37SE
MONTH1
7
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
571510
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Place
Cullercoats
Description
Kelvin Wilson, an archaeological illustrator, noticed a wide channel (? For berthing boats) and a long narrow ?drainage channel cut into the rock. These are clearly visible on Google Earth and on site at low tide. In July 2019 archaeologist Colm O'Brien and a group of local volunteers accurately recorded the position of the wide channel and the postholes using GPS.
Site Type: Broad
Landing Point
SITEDESC
Kelvin Wilson, an archaeological illustrator, noticed a wide channel (? For berthing boats) and a long narrow ?drainage channel cut into the rock. These are clearly visible on Google Earth and on site at low tide. In July 2019 archaeologist Colm O'Brien and a group of local volunteers accurately recorded the position of the wide channel and the postholes using GPS.
Site Name
Cullercoats, berthing channel
Site Type: Specific
Berth
HER Number
17803
Form of Evidence
Physical Evidence
Sources
Kelvin Wilson, illustrator archeologie, 2 October 2018, letter to Newcastle City Council; Greenville Collins, 1679-1693, Great Britain's Coasting-Pilot, map of Collar Coates; Elias Dunford, Captain of Engineers, May 1782, Coastal Survey (National Archives Kew); Mr. Dunn's Diary, 15 August 1816 (Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn), includes a text and an eye sketch of Cullercoats; Ordnance Survey first edition, 1858; John Henry Mole, 1853, watercolour of north beach of Cullercoats; Google Earth 2018; Colm O'Brien, Karl Lowther, Edward Gibney, Rebecca Pedley, July 2019, GPS survey
YEAR1
2019
English, British
ADDITINF
Y
Class
Maritime
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
2215, 15332, 17803
DAY1
22
District
N Tyneside
Easting
436480
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Coastland
Map Sheet
NZ37SE
MATERIAL
Timber
MONTH1
7
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
571510
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Place
Cullercoats
Description
Between 1676 and 1681 structures are built at a cost of over £3000, to export coal from Whitley Colliery through the port of Cullercoats. Lady Elizabeth Percy and the owners of Whitley Colliery provided the funds. The waggonway (HER 15332) terminated at a quay. In July 1677 Lady Percy wrote that "Caller Coates [is] fitt to erect a key to export her own coales and the coales of the neighbouring collieryes". Two labourers were killed during the construction of this quay, one by the falling down of a beacon pole, the other whilst "taking down ye bank".
In the late 17th century the port of Cullercoats was described as a pier where vessels enter at high water to load coals, and lie dry at low water. Entry to the port was through rocks. By 1694, 23,000 tons of coal had been shipped from Cullercoats.
In October 1709 or 1710 a storm destroyed the pier, razing it to the ground.
A 1782 plan of Cullercoats by Elias Dunford, Captain of Engineers, shows an 'Old Pier Destroyed'.
In 1816 a surveyor researching a dispute between the Duke of Northumberland and a landowner in Whitley interviewed Cullercoats inhabitants about the "old piles" he could see along the shoreline. Some of these piles were apparently still visible in the 1850s, as they are shown on John Henry Mole's painting of the north beach of Cullercoats 1853.
Kelvin Wilson, an archaeological illustrator, noticed a wide channel (? For berthing boats), a long narrow ?drainage channel and a regular pattern of large square postholes cut into the rock. These are clearly visible on Google Earth and on site at low tide. In July 2019 archaeologist Colm O'Brien and a group of local volunteers accurately recorded the position of the wide channel and the postholes using GPS.
Site Type: Broad
Landing Point
SITEDESC
Between 1676 and 1681 structures are built at a cost of over £3000, to export coal from Whitley Colliery through the port of Cullercoats. Lady Elizabeth Percy and the owners of Whitley Colliery provided the funds. The waggonway (HER 15332) terminated at a quay. In July 1677 Lady Percy wrote that "Caller Coates [is] fitt to erect a key to export her own coales and the coales of the neighbouring collieryes". Two labourers were killed during the construction of this quay, one by the falling down of a beacon pole, the other whilst "taking down ye bank".
In the late 17th century the port of Cullercoats was described as a pier where vessels enter at high water to load coals, and lie dry at low water. Entry to the port was through rocks. By 1694, 23,000 tons of coal had been shipped from Cullercoats.
In October 1709 or 1710 a storm destroyed the pier, razing it to the ground.
A 1782 plan of Cullercoats by Elias Dunford, Captain of Engineers, shows an 'Old Pier Destroyed'.
In 1816 a surveyor researching a dispute between the Duke of Northumberland and a landowner in Whitley interviewed Cullercoats inhabitants about the "old piles" he could see along the shoreline. Some of these piles were apparently still visible in the 1850s, as they are shown on John Henry Mole's painting of the north beach of Cullercoats 1853.
Kelvin Wilson, an archaeological illustrator, noticed a wide channel (? For berthing boats, HER 17803), a long narrow ?drainage channel and a regular pattern of large square postholes cut into the rock. These are clearly visible on Google Earth and on site at low tide. In July 2019 archaeologist Colm O'Brien and a group of local volunteers accurately recorded the position of the wide channel and the postholes using GPS.
Site Name
Cullercoats, C17 pier or quay
Site Type: Specific
Quay
HER Number
17802
Form of Evidence
Physical Evidence
Sources
Kelvin Wilson, illustrator archeologie, 2 October 2018, letter to Newcastle City Council; Greenville Collins, 1679-1693, Great Britain's Coasting-Pilot, map of Collar Coates; Elias Dunford, Captain of Engineers, May 1782, Coastal Survey (National Archives Kew); Mr. Dunn's Diary, 15 August 1816 (Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn), includes a text and an eye sketch of Cullercoats; Ordnance Survey first edition, 1858; John Henry Mole, 1853, watercolour of north beach of Cullercoats; Google Earth 2018; Colm O'Brien, Karl Lowther, Edward Gibney, Rebecca Pedley, July 2019, GPS survey
YEAR1
2019
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Sophie Laidler
DAY1
18
District
Sunderland
Easting
440010
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Building
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
MATERIAL
Brick, sandstone
MONTH1
7
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556920
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Sunderland
Description
Somerford Buildings constructed out of red brick and local coal measures sandstone. Octagonal tower located above the entrance with a dome. Stepped gable overlooks Sunniside Gardens. Main door decorated with swan-neck pediment and Baroque ornament.
Site Type: Broad
Commercial Office
SITEDESC
Somerford Buildings constructed out of red brick and local coal measures sandstone. Octagonal tower located above the entrance with a dome. Stepped gable overlooks Sunniside Gardens. Main door decorated with swan-neck pediment and Baroque ornament. Early 20th century. Currently used as offices by an accountant firm.
Site Name
Norfolk Street, Somerford Buildings
Site Type: Specific
Commercial Office
HER Number
17801
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates
YEAR1
2019
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Sophie Laidler
DAY1
18
District
Sunderland
Easting
440030
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Building
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
7
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556880
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Edwardian 1902 to 1910
Place
Sunderland
Description
Constructed in 1903 designed by William and Thomas Ridley Milburn in a ‘Queen Anne’ architectural style. Red brick, sash windows and terracotta. Potted-flower motifs and shaped gables.
Site Type: Broad
Shop
SITEDESC
Constructed in 1903 designed by William and Thomas Ridley Milburn in a ‘Queen Anne’ architectural style. Red brick, sash windows and terracotta. Potted-flower motifs and shaped gables. Currently used as a block of shops with flats above.
Site Name
Borough Road, Borough Buildings
Site Type: Specific
Shop
HER Number
17800
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates