Houghton-le-Spring, Moors Farm

HER Number:
5129

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Houghton-le-Spring, Moors Farm

Place:
Houghton-le-Spring

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:
Former farmstead located on north side of the road between High Dubmire and Houghton-le-Spring. Date established not known but recorded on the 1838 Houghton-le-Spring tithe map. The building is recorded as Moors Farm by the Ordnance Survey from 1856 and the complex of buildings gradually increased from that date. Some of the outbuildings have been demolished since 1939 and both the farmhouse and adjoining range to the west are now in residential use.

Easting:
3288

Northing:
4983

Grid Reference:
NZ32884983

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5129 >> Northern Archaeological Associates, 2001, Sunderland Central Route, Multi Modal Study