Cullercoats, Brown's Buildings

HER Number:
7088

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Cullercoats, Brown's Buildings

Place:
Cullercoats

Map Sheet:
NZ37SE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Maritime House

Site Type: Specific:
Fishermans House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Nine cottages at the rear of Front Street, built in 1838. Believed to have taken their name from a local baker called Brown who had premises on Front Street. Typical row of fishermens' cottages. They had one bedroom, typically furnished with an old four-poster bed, chairs and a table. The chimneypiece was ornamented with brass candlesticks and china dogs. The lobster pots, creels and wooden barrels of salt rock for herrings would be near the entrance. There were similar cottages at Nos. 27-33 Front Street.

Easting:
3632

Northing:
7152

Grid Reference:
NZ36327152

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats; Ordnance Survey first edition map 1850