Field House Farm
Field House Farm
HER Number
16267
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Field House Farm
Place
Houghton-le-Spring
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Farm
Site Type: Specific
Farmstead
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Field House Farm (c.1890) consists of two two-storeyed ranges - the Main Range and the North Range forming an inverted T plan. A single-storeyed South East and South West Range adjoined either end of the longer Main Range and returned to the south. The South East Range has been demolished but the short South Range remains in ruinous condition. The buildings are constructed of roughly-coursed yellow Magnesian Limestone rubble, with raised quoins and dressings expressed in olive brick (original) or orange brick (secondary phase). The original roofs where they survive are of Welsh slates, but have partly been replaced by corrugated sheeting. Farm buildings are of local interest, notably in demonstrating late 19th-early 20th century building techniques in which variously-coloured brickwork were used as an economical alternative to cut stone quoins and dressings. Changing agricultural needs of the later 20th century needs for larger spaces to house machinery and vehicles have meant that floors have been removed and walls demolished, so that little more than the shells of parts of the original buildings survive today.
Easting
435150
Northing
550140
Grid Reference
NZ435150550140
Sources
P Ryder, 2014, Field House Farm, Houghton-le-Spring - historic building recording