Tyne and Wear HER(8027): Front Street, Cleadon House - Details
8027
S Tyneside
Front Street, Cleadon House
Cleadon
NZ36SE
Domestic
House
House
POST MEDIEVAL
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Extant Building
House. Supposedly 1738 (rainwater heads) for John Dagnia of South Shields, glass
manufacturer. Brick with stone dressings; roof of plain tiles. Simple block
plan. 2 storeys, 5 windows, including a central Venetian staircase window, all
with broad moulded glazing bars, raised surrounds and projecting cills. Plinth,
raised quoins; band and coping to parapet of parallel-ridged roof; 4 corniced end
brick chimneys. Later porch off-centre; brick with raised quoins and raised
surround to door with 6 fielded panels; flat roof. South front to garden has
scrolled pediment to central door, moulded architraves to all windows, large
oblong fanlights with radial decoration above two side doors; a C19 conservatory
encloses the 3 doors. Interior: staircase has dado rail and cornice and a
wrought-iron balustrade of c.1750 in a rococo design of leaves, seed-pods and
curved bars; the front porch has been inserted beneath this; doors to main rooms
in hall have corniced picture-panels; fluted pilasters support an elliptical arch
to the narrower section of hall opposite the stairs. LISTED GRADE 2*
438323
562298
NZ438323562298
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 3/22; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2015, The Cleadon Village Atlas