Back Field House

HER Number

17242

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Back Field House

Place

Gateshead

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farm

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Farm shown on the First Edition Ordnance Survey Plan, 1857 as Back Field House. A structure is shown on an earlier plan of the Park Estate c.1740s. The building is unlabelled but is situated in the same place - in the field labelled South Close of Balkfield. Gone by 1896.

Easting

426080

Northing

563230

Grid Reference

NZ426080563230

Sources

Alan Williams Archaeology, 2009, Former Freight Depot, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment; Plan of the Park Estate, c1740, TWAS DT.BEL 2/149