Wallsend, East Benton Farm

HER Number:
7373

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, East Benton Farm

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Farm

Site Type: Specific:
Farmstead

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Byres, stables, cart sheds, lofts and granary with engine house attached. Late eighteenth century/early nineteenth century and engine house dated 1843 on cast iron plaque with monogram of John and Benjamin Green. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; brick engine house; Welsh slate roofs. Ranged around yard with inner fold-yard wall. North cart shed has square piers to three arches under three square windows, partly boarded up. Similar piers and wooden lintels to two later cart sheds added to right east range. Dutch door in each range. Engine house shows internal high ashlar wall to granary with top beam of large scantling shaped to receive shaft. LISTED GRADE 2.

Easting:
2854

Northing:
6845

Grid Reference:
NZ28546845

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 6/167