Woolsington Hall, byre

Woolsington Hall, byre

HER Number
16018
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Woolsington Hall, byre
Place
Woolsington
Map Sheet
NZ27SW
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Agricultural Building
Site Type: Specific
Cow House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Long narrow building, single storey and gabled at the west end. Built of stone with openings to the south. The north side had narrow slit ventilators. Three square windows have been cut through the masonry surrounded by tiles. The part to the west which retains a slate roof is earlier. It has quoins on the north wall. The south side has stone piers. The internal roof stricture is a scissor truss supporting profiled sheeting. At the east end the original roof may have been hipped. At the western end is a brick chimney, a later addition.
Easting
420010
Northing
570980
Grid Reference
NZ420010570980
Sources
Simpson & Brown Architects, February 2012, Woolsington Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, Draft Conservation Plan: Historical Development & Significance; Simpson & Brown Architects, 2014, Woolsington Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, Conservation Plan