Oakfield House, Oakfield Road

HER Number

11440

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Oakfield House, Oakfield Road

Place

Gosforth

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Town House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Oakfield house, formerly the home of Sir Cecil Cochrane, became Westfield Girls School c.1960. The house is a good-quality ashlar building in the Italianate style, perhaps of the 1870s. A lodge to the former house is well hidden behind a stone boundary wall with heavy solid gates. A conservatory for Oakfield House called The Camellia House was recorded in 2007 ahead of its demolition.

Easting

423800

Northing

567260

Grid Reference

NZ423800567260

Sources

Newcastle City Council, 2002, Gosforth Conservation Area Character Statement, p 57; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2007, The Camellia House, Westfield School, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Historic Buildings Recording