East Rainton, Stobbley Moor Farm (Low Farm)

HER Number:
15722

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
East Rainton, Stobbley Moor Farm (Low Farm)

Place:
East Rainton

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Farm

Site Type: Specific:
Farmstead

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Low Farm was farmed by the Hutchinson family (Mr J.T Hutchinson). The farm was owned by the Dean and Chapter of Durham. It was later leased to the North Hetton Coal Company and was eventually owned by the National Coal Board. The last family to live there were the Adamsons (not farmers). The farm was demolished around 1941.

Easting:
3366

Northing:
4788

Grid Reference:
NZ33664788

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Ordnance Survey First Edition Map 1858; Robert Hope, no date, Recollections of Life in the Village of East Rainton in the 1920s; Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas p566