Westerhope, Low Newbiggin Farm

HER Number:
5083

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Westerhope, Low Newbiggin Farm

Place:
Westerhope

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

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:
Farm consisting of a dwelling house, with dairy and pantry, a two-roomed cottage, barn, granary, cart shed, 2 piggeries, hay house, turnip house, loose box, 5 feeding boxes, 2 calf hutches, 4-stall cattle byre, 2-stall stable and 4-stall stable, hen house and implement shed. It had 144.69 acres of arable and pasture land. Sold by Auction August 1920 (NRO CLAs 99/1).

Easting:
1956

Northing:
6860

Grid Reference:
NZ19566860

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5083 >> Pers comm. I. Ayris & R.B. Harbottle, 1986, Low Biggin Farm