South Street, police house and cottages
South Street, police house and cottages
HER Number
15769
District
Sunderland
Site Name
South Street, police house and cottages
Place
East Rainton
Map Sheet
NZ34NW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
Police House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Cottages in an L-plan around a square garden, shown on OS second edition map. This included a police house, occupied in the 1920s by a PC Cuthbertson. The other cottages were occupied by the Matthews and Bassick families.
Easting
433480
Northing
547810
Grid Reference
NZ433480547810
Sources
Ordnance Survey Second Edition Map 1890; Robert Hope, no date, East Rainton in the 1920s; Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas