Sunniside, Garden Cottage

HER Number:
16346

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Sunniside, Garden Cottage

Place:
Sunniside

Map Sheet:
NZ25NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
House

Site Type: Specific:
Detached House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
A stone cottage, single storey with three rooms and a red pantile roof. Jack Richardson, sexton at St. Cuthbert's Church at Marley Hill, lived here from 1890 to 1914 and called it Garden Cottage. There was a market garden of 3 acres. In the 1920s and 30s, Stan Douglas, market gardener and cowkeeper, lived here. In 1955 the cottage was condemned by Whickham Council. The plot has been used to grow cabbages and leeks for many years, and recently Christmas trees.

Easting:
2126

Northing:
5893

Grid Reference:
NZ21265893

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Loosing Hill, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/loosing.html; URS, 2014, Land at Street Gate, Sunniside - Archaeological Assessment