Cheswick Cottage (alias Dowie House), Ancroft, Northumberland: Farmsteads Survey
Author(s): RCHME
The farm buildings at Cheswick Cottage (also known as Dowie House) were constructed in three principal phases during the nineteenth century. Although two buildings have been demolished, map evidence enables the evolution of the site to be fairly clearly understood. The first stage of development, probably dating from the first quarter of the nineteenth century consisted of an essentially U-shaped complex with a detached building dividing the yard into two, and a horse engine house: both the detached building and the engine house have been demolished. The second phase, probably constructed in the second quarter of the century, consists of a cartshed. Between 1860 and 1898, parts of the yards were covered in, but the roofs were demolished before the 1920s. From the earliest nineteenth-century phase, the buildings provided for integrated agriculture,
- Report Number:
- 97/1995
- Series:
- RCHME
- Pages:
- 9
- Keywords:
- Farmstead
