Axwell Park, Dower House

HER Number:
6023

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Axwell Park, Dower House

Place:
Blaydon

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition as Blaydon House. Listed as Axwell Park Dower House. Built circa 1770-80. Possibly by John Bell of Durham; for Sir Thomas Clavering. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roof. Gothick style. Central half-glazed door under arched fanlight. Venetian windows and central sash on first floor. Corniced ashlar chimneys. Interior - dog-leg stair, round headed stair window, original panelled doors and architraves throughout. LISTED GRADE 2*

Easting:
1962

Northing:
6244

Grid Reference:
NZ19626244

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
1st edition Ordnance Survey map; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest 4/25; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1985, The Buildings of England: County Durham; N.G. Rippeth, 1990, Blaydon in old picture postcards