Clavering Place, Clavering House
Clavering Place, Clavering House
HER Number
8856
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Clavering Place, Clavering House
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'House now offices. Circa 1780. English bond brick with painted plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 wide bays and 2-storey 2-bay right extension. 6-panelled door and overlight in central pedimented doorcase flanked by narrow windows; round arched opening to sash window with blind head above, flanked by narrow blind windows giving Venetian effect. Full-height 3-window flanking shallow canted bays. All windows sashes with glazing bars under wedge stone lintels. Sill and eaves bands. Double-span roof, with-rear shaped gable, has long hips over canted bays; massive renewed chimney central on front ridge.'
Offices of the North Eastern Railway. LISTED GRADE 2
'House now offices. Circa 1780. English bond brick with painted plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 wide bays and 2-storey 2-bay right extension. 6-panelled door and overlight in central pedimented doorcase flanked by narrow windows; round arched opening to sash window with blind head above, flanked by narrow blind windows giving Venetian effect. Full-height 3-window flanking shallow canted bays. All windows sashes with glazing bars under wedge stone lintels. Sill and eaves bands. Double-span roof, with-rear shaped gable, has long hips over canted bays; massive renewed chimney central on front ridge.'
Offices of the North Eastern Railway. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424929
Northing
563816
Grid Reference
NZ424929563816
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 23/167; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 108; Jack and John Leslie, 2001, Bygone West Quayside and the Chares, no. 11; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1024907