Village Lane, rectory

HER Number

9683

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Village Lane, rectory

Place

Washington

Map Sheet

NZ35NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Clergy House

Site Type: Specific

Vicarage

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

The rectory was built in the early 1700s. It was an elegant brick mansion. Washington Urban District Council later used it as their offices. It was destroyed by fire in 1949. Residential apartments have been built on the site.

Easting

430930

Northing

556550

Grid Reference

NZ430930556550

Sources

Sunderland City Council, 2009, Washington Village Conservation Area - Character Appraisal and Management Strategy; C. Bennett, 1960s, Washington Local History; Albert L. Hind, 1976, History and Folklore of Old Washington; Audrey Fletcher, 1999-2007, History of Washington webpages www.geocities.com/washingtonlass/HolyTrinityChurch.html