Gibside Estate, byre and cesspool

Gibside Estate, byre and cesspool

HER Number
16502
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gibside Estate, byre and cesspool
Place
Gibside
Map Sheet
NZ15NE
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Agricultural Building
Site Type: Specific
Cow House
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Ruined Building
Description
Site of a three-stall cow byre for which planning approval was given in October 1922. It appears on the 1939 Ordnance Survey plan as a single long building measuring c.15.5m x c.3m - more than twice as long as the approved building plan. The visible remains (in 2011) comprised at least two concrete floor slabs, the matrix of which includes small pieces of crushed brick/tile. The remains of a brick wall at the north-western end includes bricks stamped 'VGC' for Victoria Garesfield Colliery. To the west is a brick lined cesspool.
Easting
416960
Northing
558280
Grid Reference
NZ416960558280
Sources
Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2011, New car parking Warren Haugh and West Wood, Gibside - Archaeological Assessment