Nine cottages at the rear of Front Street, built in 1838. Believed to have taken their name from a local baker called Brown who had premises on Front Street. Typical row of fishermens' cottages. They had one bedroom, typically furnished with an old four-poster bed, chairs and a table. The chimneypiece was ornamented with brass candlesticks and china dogs. The lobster pots, creels and wooden barrels of salt rock for herrings would be near the entrance. There were similar cottages at Nos. 27-33 Front Street.
Site Type: Broad
Maritime House
SITEDESC
Nine cottages at the rear of Front Street, built in 1838. Believed to have taken their name from a local baker called Brown who had premises on Front Street. Typical row of fishermens' cottages. They had one bedroom, typically furnished with an old four-poster bed, chairs and a table. The chimneypiece was ornamented with brass candlesticks and china dogs. The lobster pots, creels and wooden barrels of salt rock for herrings would be near the entrance. There were similar cottages at Nos. 27-33 Front Street.
Site Name
Brown's Buildings
Site Type: Specific
Fishermans House
HER Number
7088
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats; Ordnance Survey first edition map 1850
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
03
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3634
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ37SE
MONTH1
05
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
7149
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Cullercoats
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. Not to be confused with the earlier Ship Inn built in 1746 which became the Bay Hotel (HER 7081). One of four public houses in the village.
Site Type: Broad
Eating and Drinking Establishment
SITEDESC
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. Not to be confused with the earlier Ship Inn built in 1746 which became the Bay Hotel (HER 7081). One of four public houses in the village.
Site Name
Ship Inn
Site Type: Specific
Public House
HER Number
7087
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Ordnance Survey first edition map 1850; History of Northumberland, Victoria County Histories Vol VIII pp 280-4; W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Communications
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
03
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3639
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ37SE
MONTH1
05
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
7146
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Cullercoats
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition.
Site Type: Broad
Postal System Structure
SITEDESC
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition.
Site Name
Cullercoats, post office
Site Type: Specific
Post Office
HER Number
7086
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Ordnance Survey first edition map 1850
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
03
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3639
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ37SE
MONTH1
05
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
7145
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Cullercoats
Description
House, shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. Now gone.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
House, shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. Now gone.
Site Name
Dial House
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
7085
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Ordnance Survey first edition map 1850; History of Northumberland, Victoria County Histories Vol VIII pp 280-4; W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2005
English, British
ADDITINF
Y
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
28
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3642
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ37SE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
04
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
7146
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Cullercoats
Description
House, 1768, with C19 alterations. It was built by Captain Thomas Armstrong, a Customs Officer and originally known as "Bank Top House". Armstrong was the commander of His Majesty's Cutter "Bridlington" a customs vessel which patrolled the seas from Newcastle to Sunderland. The house has a huge cellar with wrought iron bars separating prison type cells. By 1771 the cellar was being used to store smuggled goods and the smugglers! Clearly Armstrong paid for this grand Georgian house through his life of crime! Armstrong was charged and convicted of allowing smugglers to escape. In 1776 Armstrong was dismissed from his job when he allowed two notorious smugglers to escape. There is a secret passage in the house accessed by a trapdoor in the study which leads down through the cliff and onto the beach. The entrance on the beach is now blocked by the sea defence walls which were built in the 1960s. The house was sold to Harry Hewitson in 1837. The house was merged with an adjoining cottage dating to 1720 and another cottage of 1840. In 1846 Robert Arkwright bought the house for his wife Fanny. The Duke of Devonshire was a frequent visitor to Cliff House. His bedroom at Cliff House is said to be similar to bedrooms at his ancestral home at Chatsworth, Derbshire, with panelling and bedposts made from narwhal tusks. LISTED GRADE 2*
SITEASS
The house suffered severe fire damage in December 2004, which destroyed the roof and part of the first floor of the building. The ground floor ceiling and an internal wall collapsed. The house was recorded after the fire. Currently [2005] being restored.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
House, 1768, with C19 alterations. It was built by Captain Thomas Armstrong, a Customs Officer and originally known as "Bank Top House". Armstrong was the commander of His Majesty's Cutter "Bridlington" a customs vessel which patrolled the seas from Newcastle to Sunderland. The house has a huge cellar with wrought iron bars separating prison type cells. By 1771 the cellar was being used to store smuggled goods and the smugglers! Clearly Armstrong paid for this grand Georgian house through his life of crime! Armstrong was charged and convicted of allowing smugglers to escape. In 1776 Armstrong was dismissed from his job when he allowed two notorious smugglers to escape. There is a secret passage in the house accessed by a trapdoor in the study which leads down through the cliff and onto the beach. The entrance on the beach is now blocked by the sea defence walls which were built in the 1960s. The house was sold to Harry Hewitson in 1837. The house was merged with an adjoining cottage dating to 1720 and another cottage of 1840. In 1846 Robert Arkwright bought the house for his wife Fanny. The Duke of Devonshire was a frequent visitor to Cliff House. His bedroom at Cliff House is said to be similar to bedrooms at his ancestral home at Chatsworth, Derbshire, with panelling and bedposts made from narwhal tusks.
Site Name
Cliff House, Victoria Crescent
Site Type: Specific
House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II*
HER Number
7084
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Archaeological Services University of Durham, 2005, Cliff House, Cullercoats - desk-top assessment and building survey; History of Northumberland, Victoria County Histories Vol VIII pp 280-4; W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 5/140; North Tyneside Council, 2009, Cullercoats Conservation Area Draft Character Appraisal
SURVIVAL
60-79%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
28
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3637
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ37SE
MONTH1
04
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
7145
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Cullercoats
Description
American watercolour artist Winslow Homer is said to have rented a room at 44b Front Street close to his studio at 12 Bank Top, during his stay in Cullercoats in 1881-2.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
American watercolour artist Winslow Homer is said to have rented a room at 44b Front Street close to his studio at 12 Bank Top, during his stay in Cullercoats in 1881-2.
Site Name
44b Front Street
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
7083
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Archaeological Services University of Durham, 2004, The Bay Hotel, Cullercoats - archaeological desk-top assessment and building recording; Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in Cullercoats (typescript); History of Northumberland, Victoria County Histories Vol VIII pp 280-4; W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton; Illustrated Catalogue of Winslow Homer's English Works; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats; Tony Knipe, 1988, Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Claire MacRae
Crossref
7081
DAY1
28
DAY2
26
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3641
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ37SE
MONTH1
04
MONTH2
10
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
7145
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Cullercoats
Description
Having left his temporary studio across the road at the Hudleston Arms Hotel (HER 7081), American watercolour artist Winslow Homer rented a room to use as a studio at 12 Bank Top, which lay south of Cliff House for about 18 months 1881-1882. He produced over 150 works during this time.The Bank Top buildings are shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition and probably date to the early 19th century. The cottages were demolished between 1929-1932 after some of the cliffs collapsed. The site was then landscaped.
SITEASS
An archaeological evaluation was carried out in February 2008. The work revealed some debris from the demolition of the buildings, but no clear structural elements of the cottage or art studio. Excavation led by Jane Webster of Newcastle University.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Having left his temporary studio across the road at the Hudleston Arms Hotel (HER 7081), American watercolour artist Winslow Homer rented a room to use as a studio at 12 Bank Top, which lay south of Cliff House for about 18 months 1881-1882. He produced over 150 works during this time.The Bank Top buildings are shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition and probably date to the early 19th century. The cottages were demolished between 1929-1932 after some of the cliffs collapsed. The site was then landscaped.
Site Name
12 Bank Top
Site Type: Specific
Detached House
HER Number
7082
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
Archaeological Services University of Durham, 2004, The Bay Hotel, Cullercoats - archaeological desk-top assessment and building recording; Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in Cullercoats (typescript); History of Northumberland, Victoria County Histories Vol VIII pp 280-4; W.W. Tomlinson, 1893, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton; Illustrated Catalogue of Winslow Homer's English Works; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats; Tony Knipe, 1988, Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures; North Tyneside Council, 2009, Cullercoats Conservation Area Draft Character Appraisal; Webster, J, 2008, Excavations at Bank Top, Cullercoats