Cleadon Tower
CLEADON TOWER, 10, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025211
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Cleadon Tower
- Statutory Address:
- CLEADON TOWER, 10, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025211
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cleadon Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLEADON TOWER, 10, FRONT STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CLEADON TOWER, 10, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 38443 62342
Details
NZ 36 SE BOLDON FRONT STREET (south side) Cleadon 3/21 No 10 (Cleadon Tower) (formerly listed as Cleadon 25.2.49 Tower House)
GV II
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.
Listing NGR: NZ3844362342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303680
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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