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Newton Garth Farm, East Boldon, Tyne and Wear
NZ 3549 6265; Alan Telford; building survey; 14th - 30th November 2003 NGB 03
A building survey of three farm buildings at Newton Garth Farm took place in advance of a planning decision on an application to convert the buildings for residential use. The building survey included cartographic research, visual examination of the buildings and a photographic survey. The building survey concluded that the earliest surviving fabric of the buildings dated from the late 18th or early 19th century. An original brick floor survived in one building. Nineteenth century cartographic evidence of a gin house was not confirmed by visual inspection, possibly because it had been constructed as a roofed structure without walls. One surviving building was likely to have housed the machinery driven by the gin. The other was a stable. The roofline of this building had been altered in the mid-nineteenth century. A third building was dated to the second half of the nineteenth century from cartographic evidence.
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