Gibside, saw mill

HER Number:
12404

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gibside, saw mill

Place:
Gibside

Map Sheet:
NZ15NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Timber Mill

Site Type: Specific:
Saw Mill

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Site of saw mill. Where logs are converted into timber. OS mapping shows that the building was in existence in 1895, was extended before 1914 and was demolished by 1939. Some structural remains survived at ground level in 2009 and were recorded by NCAS ahead of proposals to construct a new building on the site which would straddle the surviving remains. The range was divided into two equally sized bays. The southern bay was floored with concrete and incorporated a raised cast concrete mounting with a wheel pit on the west side. The northern bay was seperated from the other by a shallow step down and a gully floored with firebrick quarls.

Easting:
1795

Northing:
5866

Grid Reference:
NZ17955866

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Harry Beamish, Autumn 1993, Summary Table - Gibside; Northern C; Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2009, The Saw-Mill, Gibside - Archaeological Recording