Low Newbiggin Farm
Low Newbiggin Farm
HER Number
5083
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Low Newbiggin Farm
Place
Westerhope
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
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
Farm consisting of a dwelling house, with dairy and pantry, a two-roomed cottage, barn, granary, cart shed, 2 piggeries, hay house, turnip house, loose box, 5 feeding boxes, 2 calf hutches, 4-stall cattle byre, 2-stall stable and 4-stall stable, hen house and implement shed. It had 144.69 acres of arable and pasture land. Sold by Auction August 1920 (NRO CLAs 99/1).
Easting
419560
Northing
568600
Grid Reference
NZ419560568600
Sources
<< HER 5083 >> Pers comm. I. Ayris & R.B. Harbottle, 1986, Low Biggin Farm