Whickham Hill Farm

HER Number

16438

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Whickham Hill Farm

Place

Dunston

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

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

Extant Building

Description

Plans of Whickham Hill Farm (1773 and 1815) show the building as a linear structure. By the 1862 First Edition Ordnance Survey Plan a courtyard shaped additional range of buildings have been added. Buildings now divided into several dwellings.

Easting

422620

Northing

560830

Grid Reference

NZ422620560830

Sources

Plan of Whickham Hill Farm, 1773 (TWAS DT.BEL/2/101); Plan of Whickham Hill Farm, 1815 (TWAS DT.BEL/1/18/58); TWM, 2012, Proposed Dunston Hill, Urban Extension, Dunston, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment