Whitburn, Front Street, Orchard Gardens, boundary wall
Whitburn, Front Street, Orchard Gardens, boundary wall
HER Number
9504
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Whitburn, Front Street, Orchard Gardens, boundary wall
Place
Whitburn
Map Sheet
NZ46SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Boundary
Site Type: Specific
Boundary Wall
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
LOCAL LIST A 3m high magnesian limestone wall with brick coping. Originally surrounded an orchard now a small 1980s housing estate, the wall has an inner leaf of brick probably indicating that it was a heated wall. Facing south it would be an ideal location for vines or fruit.
Easting
440320
Northing
561660
Grid Reference
NZ440320561660
Sources
Tyne and Wear Specialist Conservation Team, March 1992, Other Buildings of Acknowledged Architectural Quality or Historic Significance (South Tyneside UDP Appendix ENV (B)); SOUTH TYNESIDE LOCAL LIST REVIEW 2011:
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSHA/174/W
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSHA/174/W