Usworth, West Moor Farm

HER Number:
6773

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Usworth, West Moor Farm

Place:
Usworth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NW

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:
Recorded on Greenwood's plan, 1820. Redeveloped between 1862-1896. 1862- L shaped buildings in the centre of a rectangular plot with a gin-gang on the west side. By 1896 the house (at the southern end of the L shape) had been demolished and the present dwelling constructed closer to the road. The remnants of the farm buildings had been extended into a narrow 'reversed J' shaped range, now enclosed by later additions.

Easting:
3313

Northing:
5850

Grid Reference:
NZ33135850

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<> Ordnance Survey 1st edition map 1856; Greenwood, 1820, Map of the County Palatinate of Durham, TWM D.NCP/1/7-8; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2014, Site south of Newcastle Road (A184) and West of A19 - Archaeological Assessment