Jesmond, Cavendish Place

HER Number:
13444

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Jesmond, Cavendish Place

Place:
Jesmond

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Multiple Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
Terrace

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Completed around 1901 'to meet the requirements of the families of respectable workmen and members of the lower middle class'. All the houses had 'the latest conveniences, overshot roofs and superior bay window masonry'. Each house contained 6, 7 or 9 rooms. In the front rooms there were carved oak mantelpieces. The street is named after William Cavendish (1592-1676), first Duke of Newcastle. He was a Royalist general in the English Civil War. He was born in Yorkshire but his mother, Catherine Ogle, was from Northumberland. She inherited vast estates including a third of Jesmond.

Easting:
2567

Northing:
6635

Grid Reference:
NZ25676635

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Morgan, 2010, Jesmond from mines to mansions, page 99