Gibside Estate, Watergate Cottage

HER Number:
12365

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gibside Estate, Watergate Cottage

Place:
Gibside

Map Sheet:
NZ15NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Lodge

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Buried foundations of a lodge or cottage. Built in the 1780s, the building is shown on Fryer's map if 1803 as a simple rectangular building with a small enclosure intruding into the Warren Haugh. By the mid 19th century it had been extended to the north-west creating an :-shape. By 1895 it had been extended to the south-west. Demolished in the 1970s.

Easting:
1702

Northing:
5827

Grid Reference:
NZ17025827

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Harry Beamish, Autumn 1993, Summary Table - Gibside; Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2011, New car parking Warren Haugh and West Wood, Gibside - Archaeological Assessment