Condercum House, Westgate Road
Condercum House, Westgate Road
HER Number
6351
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Condercum House, Westgate Road
Place
Benwell
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
Detached House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Originally called Benwell Little Park in Little Park Field. Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. An 1860s mansion on the west side of Condercum Road. Two storey brick building with seven bedrooms, outbuildings and lodge. George Wightwick Rendel was the first tenant of Condercum House, by 1871 it was occupied by his brother Stuart Rendel and his family. In 1887 it was the home of Col. Dwyer, a director of the Armstrong Works, and in the 1880s of Thomas E. Crawhall. It was later occupied by William Cochrane Carr and by 1901 the shipowner J.F. Weidner. The estate was sold in 1934 and demolished in 1937 to be redeveloped for residential housing probably by Hadden and Hilman who developed Benwell Park Estate around the same time.
Easting
421730
Northing
564690
Grid Reference
NZ421730564690
Sources
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Pers Comm. I Farrier, 2014, West Newcastle Picture History Collection; Newcastle Courant