Backworth, Front Street, The Old Cottage and Stables

HER Number:
7246

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Backworth, Front Street, The Old Cottage and Stables

Place:
Backworth

Map Sheet:
NZ37SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Two houses, now stores and stable. Late eighteenth century. Roughly coursed rubble sandstone with quoins to upper two-thirds. Welsh slate roofs with brick chimneys. House is of two storeys. Paired boarded central doors with blocked rectangular overlight with stone lintel. Late nineteenth century sash windows with projecting stone sills and wide stone lintels. Wrought iron gutter brackets with one section of wooden gutter. Stables at right are of one storey. Boarded door at right under wooden lintel. Two ventilation slits. One brick chimney. Gable to street contains high square window. Right return has boarded door and overlight and a window with wide glazing bars in the wooden section inserted in cart entrance. Truncated brick chimney. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3011

Northing:
7225

Grid Reference:
NZ30117225

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 4/24