Sunniside, Bracken House

HER Number:
16373

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Sunniside, Bracken House

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:
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858. By 1881 the house was divided into two and occupied by Tom Dobson and Tom Davison. In 1891 locals called the house Railway Cottage. Mary Ann Head moved here from Old Sunniside Farm when her husband Thomas died. Bracken House was still standing in 1914.

Easting:
2111

Northing:
5884

Grid Reference:
NZ21115884

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Front Street, Sunniside, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/frontst.html