Fencehouses, Birds Nook Cottage

HER Number

16572

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Fencehouses, Birds Nook Cottage

Place

Fencehouses

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

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

Birds Nook Cottage shown on the First Edition Ordnance Survey Plan, c.1855. Whellan (1856) lists the resident of Birds Nooks House as Mrs Sarah Walton. Assumption made that this is the same building.

Easting

431900

Northing

551960

Grid Reference

NZ431900551960

Sources

Whellan, W, 1856, History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham; First Edition Ordnance Survey Plan, 1855