Sunniside House, 9 Fell Close

HER Number

16385

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Sunniside House, 9 Fell Close

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

Extant Building

Description

Built around 1893. Took over the smallholding of Blackburn Edge, which was demolished by 1891. William Bell, cowkeeper and miner at Marley Hill, lived here from 1910 to 1921. Attractive two storey stone house with two gables over the upper floor windows on the front elevation. Stone sills. New windows. Slate roof. Now subsumed into a housing estate of brick semis.

Easting

420780

Northing

558630

Grid Reference

NZ420780558630

Sources

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