Dene House

HER Number

16425

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Dene House

Place

Hetton-le-Hole

Map Sheet

NZ34NE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farm

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Dean House (later shown as Dean House Farm) is depicted on Greenwood's map of Durham, 1820 as three separate buildings. By the 1861 Ordnance Survey plan is appears to be one large farmstead. The farmer in 1856 is listed as George Hunter.

Easting

434960

Northing

549050

Grid Reference

NZ434960549050

Sources

Greenwood's map of Durham, 1820 TWM D.NCP/1/7; Whellan, W, 1856, History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham