Blackburn Edge

HER Number

16384

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Blackburn Edge

Place

Sunniside

Map Sheet

NZ25NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Industrial House

Site Type: Specific

Mill House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

House overlooking the Black Burn. Saint Bean, a miller, lived here with his wife Mary in 1836. His family was from Morpeth. By 1851 he had become a flour dealer and shopkeeper. The family had a grocer's shop here until the 1880s. Their son Robert set up a grocer's shop at Hill Row in 1860. The house had gone by 1891, leaving only outbuildings and a greenhouse. Within a few years Sunniside House was built and took over the smallholding.

Easting

420790

Northing

558660

Grid Reference

NZ420790558660

Sources

Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Front Street, Sunniside, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/frontst.html