Grange Farm, Fell Bank

HER Number

16725

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Grange Farm, Fell Bank

Place

Birtley

Map Sheet

NZ25NE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farmstead

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Range of farm buildings including gin-gang shown on Second Edition Ordnance Survey Plan, 1898. Smaller buildings to the right of this range existed from 1856. By 1919 the separate building to the east is labelled Grange Farm and the gin-gang is gone. The farm range was still extant in 1940.

Easting

427630

Northing

555950

Grid Reference

NZ427630555950

Sources

NPA, 2010, Land at North Side, Birtley, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment; Ordnance Survey Second Edition 1898