Axwell Park, Dower House

HER Number

6023

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Axwell Park, Dower House

Place

Blaydon

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Dower House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition as Blaydon House. Listed as Axwell Park Dower House. Built circa 1770-80. Possibly by John Bell of Durham; for Sir Thomas Clavering. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roof. Gothick style. Central half-glazed door under arched fanlight. Venetian windows and central sash on first floor. Corniced ashlar chimneys. Interior - dog-leg stair, round headed stair window, original panelled doors and architraves throughout. LISTED GRADE 2*

Easting

419620

Northing

562440

Grid Reference

NZ419620562440

Sources

1st edition Ordnance Survey map; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 4/25; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1985, The Buildings of England: County Durham; N.G. Rippeth, 1990, Blaydon in old picture postcards