Ravensworth Park, Trench Hall

HER Number

7573

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ravensworth Park, Trench Hall

Place

Ravensworth

Map Sheet

NZ25NW

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Manor Farm

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

The home farm of the Ravensworth Estate (HER 646). Built of coursed squared sandstone, it has a curious Dutch-gabled outbuilding. The Hall was named after a leat known as 'The Trench' (HER 4121) which provided a water supply for the pumps at a coal mill (HER 1663) in the north-east corner of the estate. LOCAL LIST

Easting

422990

Northing

559710

Grid Reference

NZ422990559710

Sources

Gateshead Council Local List X20/LL/202; Gateshead Council, 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Ravensworth Conservation Area, pp 61-63