Moors Farm

HER Number

5129

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Moors Farm

Place

Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

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

Former farmstead located on north side of the road between High Dubmire and Houghton-le-Spring. Date established not known but recorded on the 1838 Houghton-le-Spring tithe map. The building is recorded as Moors Farm by the Ordnance Survey from 1856 and the complex of buildings gradually increased from that date. Some of the outbuildings have been demolished since 1939 and both the farmhouse and adjoining range to the west are now in residential use.

Easting

432880

Northing

549830

Grid Reference

NZ432880549830

Sources

<< HER 5129 >> Northern Archaeological Associates, 2001, Sunderland Central Route, Multi Modal Study