Clayton Street West, Clarendon House

HER Number

6451

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Clayton Street West, Clarendon House

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Hotel

Site Type: Specific

Temperance Hotel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Designed by Oliver and Leeson for Joseph Cowen in 1896. An Edwardian Arts and Crafts temperence hotel which became offices in 1923 (Cackett and Burns Dick were the architects). It was converted into flats in 1986-7. Rich red bricks with Westmorland roof slates. Ground floor stonework is carved below the corner turret and under the first floor window in the middle of the Clayton Street West façade. The main entrance has a shell window and tiled hallway. A Presbyterian Chapel (John Knox Chapel - designed by John Dobson) was demolished to build this temperence hotel. LOCAL LIST

Easting

424470

Northing

563950

Grid Reference

NZ424470563950

Sources

N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (second edition); D. Lovie, 1997, The Buildings of Grainger Town; John Penn, 2009, The Enigmatic Architect: Frank West Rich (1840-1929), Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th Series, Vol XXXVIII, pp 139-149; Grace McCombie, 2009, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Newcastle and Gateshead, p 180