Shown as "Usworth Place" on Ordnance Survey 1st edition of 1856. House, late 18th century for Bernard Shaw. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. U-shaped plan. 2 storeys, 5 windows. South elevation: central double 5-panelled door in open Tuscan porch with fluted frieze; bands, eaves cornice, open pediment over central 3 windows. Plain reveals to sash windows without glazing bars; round window in pediment. Hipped roof has 2 transverse yellow brick chimneys. Interior - staircase altered but dado survives, 2 arched openings made in wall between hall and principal room. Latterly in use as Washington Development Corporation HQ. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown as "Usworth Place" on Ordnance Survey 1st edition of 1856. House, late 18th century for Bernard Shaw. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. U-shaped plan. 2 storeys, 5 windows. South elevation: central double 5-panelled door in open Tuscan porch with fluted frieze; bands, eaves cornice, open pediment over central 3 windows. Plain reveals to sash windows without glazing bars; round window in pediment. Hipped roof has 2 transverse yellow brick chimneys. Interior - staircase altered but dado survives, 2 arched openings made in wall between hall and principal room. Around 1850 Usworth Hall passed into the ownership of coal companies, firstly Johnasson and Partners and George Elliott, the form who sank Usworth Colliery in 1845. Later to Johnasson, Gordon & Co. Ltd, Leversons Wallsend Collieries Ltd, Washington Coal Company Ltd and then the National Coal Board. The Corporation acquired the Hall from the NCB in 1965 to use as the Washington Development Corporation HQ.
Site Name
Usworth Hall
Site Type: Specific
Country House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
6781
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<< HER 6781 >> Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 2/85; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson, 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
6779
DAY1
07
District
Sunderland
Easting
431520
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NW
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
559020
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Usworth
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey 1st edition of 1856.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on Ordnance Survey 1st edition of 1856.
Site Name
Waterloo Cottage
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
6780
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 6780>> Shown on Ordnance Survey 1st edition of 1856.
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
6780
DAY1
07
District
Sunderland
Easting
431400
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NW
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
558930
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Usworth
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey 2nd edition of 1890. Terraced housing.
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
SITEDESC
Shown on Ordnance Survey 2nd edition of 1890. Terraced housing.
Recorded on 1805 estate plan by John Bell when it was owned by Major William Augustus Blakeney. The plan shows buildings arranged around the NE and SW sides of a square farmyard. On Greenwood's 1820 map it was labelled 'Usworth Red House'. By 1849 the owner of East House was William Russell and occupied by J Johnson Kirton. The house recorded in 1840 is a square building and is probably the earliest depiction of the present house. The extant building is of stone with a hipped pantile roof with substantial alterations. Majority of surrounding buildings constructed late 19th and early 20th century have since been demolished.
Site Type: Broad
Farm
SITEDESC
Recorded on 1805 estate plan by John Bell when it was owned by Major William Augustus Blakeney. The plan shows buildings arranged around the NE and SW sides of a square farmyard. On Greenwood's 1820 map it was labelled 'Usworth Red House'. By 1849 the owner of East House was William Russell and occupied by J Johnson Kirton. The house recorded in 1840 is a square building and is probably the earliest depiction of the present house. The extant building is of stone with a hipped pantile roof with substantial alterations. Majority of surrounding buildings constructed late 19th and early 20th century have since been demolished.
Site Name
East House
Site Type: Specific
Farm
HER Number
6778
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
<<HER 6778 >> Ordnance Survey 1st edition map 1856; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2014, Site south of Newcastle Road (A184) and West of A19 - Archaeological Assessment; Bell, 1805, Plan of Usworth East House Farm (DRO D/Bo/9/35)