Description

NZ 36 SE
3/22
25.2.49

BOLDON
FRONT STREET (south side)
Cleadon

Cleadon House

GV
II*

House. Supposedly 1738 (rainwater heads) for John Dagnia of South Shields, glass
manufacturer. Brick with stone dressings; roof of plain tiles. Simple block
plan. 2 storeys, 5 windows, including a central Venetian staircase window, all
with broad moulded glazing bars, raised surrounds and projecting cills. Plinth,
raised quoins; band and coping to parapet of parallel-ridged roof; 4 corniced end
brick chimneys. Later porch off-centre; brick with raised quoins and raised
surround to door with 6 fielded panels; flat roof. South front to garden has
scrolled pediment to central door, moulded architraves to all windows, large
oblong fanlights with radial decoration above two side doors; a C19 conservatory
encloses the 3 doors. Interior: staircase has dado rail and cornice and a
wrought-iron balustrade of c.1750 in a rococo design of leaves, seed-pods and
curved bars; the front porch has been inserted beneath this; doors to main rooms
in hall have corniced picture-panels; fluted pilasters support an elliptical arch
to the narrower section of hall opposite the stairs.

Listing NGR: NZ3832362299

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557057

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)