Whitburn, Front Street, No. 52 (Olde House) and coach house

HER Number:
8152

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Whitburn, Front Street, No. 52 (Olde House) and coach house

Place:
Whitburn

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
House. C18. Brick;Welsh slate roof. Simple block house with coach entrance in small house attached,to east. Main house : 3 storeys, 3 tripartite sash windows with gauged brick flat arches and projecting cills; central door with patterned oblong fanlight in gabled porch having decorated barge boards; high- pitched roof has 2 end brick chimney. Small house: 2 storeys, 2 bays; at east an elliptical brick arch to partly bricked-in carriage entrance now containing garage doors; at west a plank door beneath a flat arch of gauged brick, wider than the door; 2-sash windows over. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
4043

Northing:
6171

Grid Reference:
NZ40436171

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 4/47; North of England Civic Trust on behalf of South Tyneside Council, 2006, Whitburn Conservation Area Character Appraisal;