Axwell House

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Axwell Hall
County Durham
Axwell Hall (derelict) 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

  1. National Archives: Durham Record Office, Clavering Family Papers Ref D/CG7/14-16
  2. Structures of the North East
  3. "Axwell Hall - sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk". twsitelines.info. http://www.twsitelines.info/smr/4993. Retrieved 4 April 2015. 
  4. 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.