Blackfell

HER Number

9716

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Blackfell

Place

Blackfell

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Housing Estate

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Blackfell was a brand new village of houses, some tile-hung or weather-boarded. There are bungalows for the elderly in Knoulberry, built 1969-72, and grey flats and terraces with flat roofs.The Development Corporation added a private estate of cul-de-sacs at the south-east corner of the village by 1973. In the village centre there is a ecumenical church.

Easting

429120

Northing

556810

Grid Reference

NZ429120556810

Sources

N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 490