Front Street, gates and piers

HER Number

8025

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Front Street, gates and piers

Place

Cleadon

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Barrier

Site Type: Specific

Gate

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Gates: C18, one modern copy. Wrought iron. Gate piers: 3 C18, stone rusticated and vermiculated, with projecting cornices and obelisk finials. Historical note: re-erected on this site at time Cleadon Tower was altered c.1890. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

438500

Northing

562350

Grid Reference

NZ438500562350

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 3/20; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2015, The Cleadon Village Atlas; NECT, 2015, National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project