10 Front Street, Cleadon Tower

House. C18 incorporating parts of earlier house; 1890 reconstruction of tower.
Rendered with Welsh slate roof to house, flat roof to tower. L plan: cross gable
to street, tower in the angle. South elevation: 2 storeys, 3 windows, small
2-light over central door, upper right a square oriel with cornice, remainder
3-light mullioned; all openings with label moulds. Roof: 2 small gabled dormers
with barge-boards; gable coping; 2 end brick chimneys and one to cross gable;
crenellation to tower. Interior: C19 handrail to staircase with decorated tread
ends and one plain one turned baluster on each step; wide 3-centred arched stone
lintels to two fires on ground floor, chamfered with tongue stop and with 2-stepped
flat and tongue stop; another covered on ground floor; on first floor a chimney
piece with false 4-centred arch between tapered pilasters, fluted with heavily
moulded plinth and cornice, and the Chamber arms over; and some 2-panelled doors
with bolection-moulded architraves and panels over. LISTED GRADE 2