Bensham, Villa Place

HER Number:
12061

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bensham, Villa Place

Place:
Bensham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Multiple Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
Terrace

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Austere red brick terraces in a narrow street, built in the 1890s in the garden of Woodbine Villa (HER 7638). The few few houses have been converted into the Wutan Kungfu Institute and have lost most of their original detail.

Easting:
2523

Northing:
6243

Grid Reference:
NZ25236243

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Gateshead Council, 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Coatsworth Conservation Area, pp 25-31