Cleadon Cottage (Cleadon Park), Sunderland Road

HER Number

7792

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Cleadon Cottage (Cleadon Park), Sunderland Road

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Country House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Post enclosure farmsted. Rebuilt in 1853 by John Dobson for Swinburne. Forty years later James Kirkley carried out major works including a vast palm house. Sunderland Corporation bought it in 1918 and from 1921 to 1978 it was used as a hospital. Demolished in 1982.

Easting

438210

Northing

563770

Grid Reference

NZ438210563770

Sources

P. Meadows and E. Waterson, 1993, Lost Houses of County Durham, p 37; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson, 1985, The Buildings of England - County Durham; National Monuments Record UID 1075686, 1050602, NMR NZ 36 SE 30; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2015, The Cleadon Village Atlas; Tithe plan 1839, DDR/EA/TTH/1/252