Fugar, Watergate

HER Number

16361

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Fugar, Watergate

Place

Fugar House

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Detached House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Tiny cottage. In 1719 Cuthbert Newton lived here. In 1841 Catherine Hutchison and her daughter lived there. Catherine died in 1866 aged 90. The cottage was demolished by 1894. The site was buried under spoil from Watergate Pit. The site was reclaimed in 1993. It was opencast in 1995. A water gate, or flood gate, is used to stop a flow of water.

Easting

422450

Northing

560070

Grid Reference

NZ422450560070

Sources

Ordnance Survey first edition 1858; Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Streetgate, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/streetgate