Dewley House

HER Number

11525

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Dewley House

Place

Dewley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Country House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Dewley House is shown on a plan of 1620 of Newburn manor. Possible site of Dewley medieval village (HER 1314). In 1622 the 'house and a close called Dewly' were held by Cuthbert Hearon, who also held the manor place of Newburn. It was held by Sir Orlando Gee, who was M.P. for Cockermouth in Cumbria, in 1625. The property was owned by the Percy estates, lords of Newburn manor.

Easting

416280

Northing

567770

Grid Reference

NZ416280567770

Sources

A plan of the manor of Newburn, 1620, Alnwick Castle Archives Class O, Div. xvii, No. 1; M.H. Dodds, 1930, A History of Northumberland XIII, p 149; Rental of 1622 and 1625, Syon House Archives Class A, Div. ii, No. 11a