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Summerhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Ryton, Crookhill and Stella, Gateshead

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9659 / 54°57'57"N

Longitude: -1.7251 / 1°43'30"W

OS Eastings: 417695

OS Northings: 563513

OS Grid: NZ176635

Mapcode National: GBR JCD0.9N

Mapcode Global: WHC3P.GFQW

Plus Code: 9C6WX78F+9W

Entry Name: Summerhouse

Listing Date: 18 September 1975

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1025180

English Heritage Legacy ID: 303796

ID on this website: 101025180

Location: Blaydon, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE21

County: Gateshead

Electoral Ward/Division: Ryton, Crookhill and Stella

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear

Church of England Parish: Blaydon and Swalwell

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


NZ 16 SE BLAYDON SUMMERHILL

4/29 Summerhouse.

18.9.75
G.V. II

Summerhouse. By 1750. For Sir Thomas Clavering. Flemish bond brick octagonal
tower with sandstone dressing on square rubble base with ashlar coping.
Square base broached to an octagonal top with cyma moulding. Door in north
side under flat stone lintel. Blocked window openings, on north, south, east
and west of the tower, have sills and bracketed cornices under round stone
arches. Alternate bays contain round-headed brick panels with sills and
moulded impost blocks. Stilted roundheaded arches above openings. Cyma-
moulded cornice. Dome seen in old engraving now missing. Interior shows
fireplace on south-west panel. Historical note: the house to which this
belonged was Stella Hall, now demolished. A 1755 inventory gives description
of furniture in the "Mount" which appears to be this building. Empty and
disused at time of survey.


Listing NGR: NZ1769563513

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