Rectory Field, verger's cottage

HER Number

16203

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Rectory Field, verger's cottage

Place

Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Vergers Cottage

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Verger's cottage shown on historic mapping from 1855-1970s in the north-east corner of Rectory Field (HER16201). The cottage was extended in the 1950s when it was then owned by the local council before being demolished in the 1980s. The function of the building is unknown but likely to have been a field barn.

Easting

433900

Northing

549880

Grid Reference

NZ433900549880

Sources

Northern Archaeological Associates Ltd. 2014, Rectory Park, Houghton-le-Spring, Archaeological Assessment and Building Recording; First Edition Ordnance Survey Plan, 1855; TWAS Proposed extension to the Verger's Cottage, August 1950 (UD/HS/25/87)