Garden Cottage

HER Number

16346

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Garden Cottage

Place

Sunniside

Map Sheet

NZ25NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Detached House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

A stone cottage, single storey with three rooms and a red pantile roof. Jack Richardson, sexton at St. Cuthbert's Church at Marley Hill, lived here from 1890 to 1914 and called it Garden Cottage. There was a market garden of 3 acres. In the 1920s and 30s, Stan Douglas, market gardener and cowkeeper, lived here. In 1955 the cottage was condemned by Whickham Council. The plot has been used to grow cabbages and leeks for many years, and recently Christmas trees.

Easting

421260

Northing

558930

Grid Reference

NZ421260558930

Sources

Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Loosing Hill, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/loosing.html; URS, 2014, Land at Street Gate, Sunniside - Archaeological Assessment