Sandpiper. Whitburn Bents Road

HER Number

12460

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sandpiper. Whitburn Bents Road

Place

Whitburn

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Agricultural Dwelling

Site Type: Specific

Farm Labourers Cottage

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

By 1896 two groups of cottages had been built at either end of the fishermen's cottages (HER 12459), perpendicular to the main rows. The northern group was demolished in 1938 along with the fishermen's cottages by Sir Hedworth Williamson. The southern group survived and are now a single house known as Sandpiper. Sandpiper was originally a pair of farmworkers cottages. The building is of local limestone and is rather quaint and charming. Small gabled dormers. The windows, gutters and barge boards have been replaced in uPVC. The original boundary walls, also limestone, survive.

Easting

440750

Northing

561070

Grid Reference

NZ440750561070

Sources

Sunderland City Council, 2007, Whitburn Bents Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Strategy; T. Corfe, 1973, A History of Sunderland; T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914; G.E. Miller and S.T. Milburn, 1988, Sunderland, River, Town & People; P. O'Brien and P. Gibson, 1997, The Archive Photographs Series: Seaburn and Roker; N. Pevsner, 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson); S. Reeder, 1992, Whitburn and Roker in old picture postcards