Garden Street

HER Number

12486

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Garden Street

Place

Newbottle

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Terrace

Site Type: Specific

Terrace

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Originally known as Cross Street, this is best colliery terrace in Newbottle Conservation Area. Built from coursed limestone rubble with Welsh slate roofs. Distinctive brick dressings around windows and above the doors. Constructed around 1870 as two rows of small terraced cottages of the 'two up and two down' type, on the large garden of William Byers.

Easting

433860

Northing

551460

Grid Reference

NZ433860551460

Sources

Sunderland City Council, November 2008, Newbottle Village Conservation Area - Character Appraisal and Management Strategy, Consultation Draft; Borough of Sunderland, 1980, Newbottle Village District Plan Written Statement; G.E. Milburn, 1978, Newbottle: An Outline History; K. Richardson, 1989, Houghton-le-Spring and Hetton-le-Hole in Old Photographs