Old Row

HER Number

11560

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Old Row

Place

Walbottle

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Terrace

Site Type: Specific

Terrace

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Old Row, the very first terraced housing to be built in Walbottle village, is shown on the tithe map of 1848. The houses had no back garden, but vegetables could be grown in the surrounding allotments. Confusingly the terrace is named New Row on the first edition Ordnance Survey map.

Easting

416860

Northing

566490

Grid Reference

NZ416860566490

Sources

Walbottle Tithe Map, 1848, Northumberland Museum and Archives (Woodhorn) NRO DT 468 M; G. Walton and A. Watson, 1992, Bygone Walbottle; photograph of c.1900 held by Newcastle Local Studies Library (copyright Newcastle Chronicle and Journal); Newcastle City Council, 2009, Walbottle Village Conservation Area Character Statement & Management Plan, page 7