94 Front Street, West Farm

94 Front Street, West Farm

HER Number
8033
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
94 Front Street, West Farm
Place
East Boldon
Map Sheet
NZ36SE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Stuart 1603 to 1714
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
This house was listed Grade II in 1949 with the following description:
'House. C17 with C18 and modern alterations. Stucco; pantiled roof. 2 storeys, 3 windows all modern replacing sashes at first floor and tripartite sashes at ground floor; early C19 door, upper half with modern glazing, has a moulded canopy on brackets. Steeply pitched roof, swept, renewed in modern pantiles, has stone coping and corniced brick end chimneys. Interior : panelled dado in central passage, round-headed arch with panelled soffit, and keystone motif. Staircase has dado, plain balusters and hand-rail. Room to east of entrance has wide 4-centred arched timber lintel to chimney, with scroll-stopped moulded chamfer and evidence of a former central projection; exposed first floor joists have unstopped chamfers. Roof timbers seem to be upper crucks with through purlins.'
Easting
436120
Northing
561370
Grid Reference
NZ436120561370
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 3/29;
North of England Civic Trust on behalf of South Tyneside Council, February 2006, East Boldon Conservation Area Character Appraisal;
East Boldon School Centenary 1885-1985;
M. Linge, The Story of Boldon;
A. Middleton, 1983, Boldon's Witness in Church and Community;
N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham;
W. Wilson, 1935, A Short History of Boldon;
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1025218