Axwell House
| Axwell Hall | |
| County Durham | |
|---|---|
_2003_(1382922501).jpg) Axwell Hall while derelict | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NZ190620 |
| Location: | 54°57’10"N, 1°42’17"W |
| Village: | Blaydon |
| History | |
| Built 18th century | |
| For: | Sir Thomas Clavering by James Paine |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted |
Axwell House (also Axwell Hall) is a mansion house and Grade II* listed building, at Axwell Park, Blaydon, in County Durham.
An early manor house on the site was acquired by James Clavering, a merchant adventurer of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1629 for £1700.[1] In 1758 his descendant Sir Thomas Clavering replaced the house with a substantial mansion and assisted architect James Paine (1712–1789) in the Palladian design of the new house.[2]
The hall was converted for use as the Newcastle Ragged School in 1920.[3]
Having stood empty, neglected and deteriorating the property was acquired in 2005 by property developers for restoration and conversion to residential apartments.[4]
References
- ↑ National Archives: Durham Record Office, Clavering Family Papers Ref D/CG7/14-16
- ↑ Structures of the North East
- ↑ "Axwell Hall - sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk". twsitelines.info. http://www.twsitelines.info/smr/4993. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ↑ nechronicle Administrator (23 June 2005). "Historic hall is set to reopen". nechronicle. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/historic-hall-set-reopen-1580686. Retrieved 4 April 2015.