Biddick Farm Arts Centre (North Biddick Farm)

HER Number

9721

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Biddick Farm Arts Centre (North Biddick Farm)

Place

Fatfield

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

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

Extant Building

Description

Farm conversion by the Development Corporation (1973-7). Built c.1860 by the Lambton Estates. Substantial stone buildings, with an industrial look to them, round a large courtyard.

Easting

430930

Northing

554660

Grid Reference

NZ430930554660

Sources

N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 491; Rob Kirkup, 2009, Ghostly Tyne and Wear, pages 10-13