Blue House

HER Number

15771

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Blue House

Place

East Rainton

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Named on the first edition map as Blue House. By the 1920s it had been divided into cottages and the Hunter, Gibbney, Chesney, Cummings and Jobling families lived here.

Easting

433480

Northing

547920

Grid Reference

NZ433480547920

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