Backworth, Front Street, Duke's Cottages

HER Number:
7245

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Backworth, Front Street, Duke's Cottages

Place:
Backworth

Map Sheet:
NZ37SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Estate Building

Site Type: Specific:
Estate Cottage

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Six estate houses, now four dwellings. Circa 1840 for Duke of Northumberland. Restored 1980 by J. & D. Darbishire for Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Some rubble in ground floor between each pair of houses. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. One storey and attic. Boarded doors. Stone-mullioned casement windows and sash window in gabled dormer over vehicle entrance. Three chimney stacks. Wall in front is of rubble sandstone has roughly dressed round stone coping. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3001

Northing:
7226

Grid Reference:
NZ30017226

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 3/23 and 4/23