Bracken House

HER Number

16373

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Bracken House

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

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858. By 1881 the house was divided into two and occupied by Tom Dobson and Tom Davison. In 1891 locals called the house Railway Cottage. Mary Ann Head moved here from Old Sunniside Farm when her husband Thomas died. Bracken House was still standing in 1914.

Easting

421110

Northing

558840

Grid Reference

NZ421110558840

Sources

Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Front Street, Sunniside, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/frontst.html