Earsdon, White House

HER Number

8661

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Earsdon, White House

Place

Earsdon

Map Sheet

NZ37SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Residence of the Barkers, prominent hereabouts since C16. Christopher Barker (1732-71) was an attorney in Newcastle. The family changed its name to Purvis as a result of inheriting certain estates during the C18, when the house was re-faced. However it was at least a century older and its garden had contained a small fortified tower. Used durin the First World War as an Officers' Mess and later as a Working Men's Club, the house was purchased by Tynemouth Council in 1933 and demolished in 1959.

Easting

432210

Northing

572450

Grid Reference

NZ432210572450

Sources

T. Faulkner and P. Lowery, 1996, Lost Houses of Newcastle and Northumberland, p 45; North East War Memorials Project (www.newmp.org.uk E3.01)