Superintendent'S House

The Superintendent's House is a building constructed in 1848 by John Dobson for the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company. It is made of ashlar stone and features a Welsh slate roof. The house has a castellated, octagonal, two-storey tower, which is connected to a lower two-storey wing with three irregular bays on the left side.

The wing includes a gabled porch adorned with a fleur de lys finial, ridged coping, kneelers, and a Tudor-arched doorway located in the right bay. The windows are predominantly three-light double-chamfered mullioned windows, except for the first-floor center window, which is a single light. The ground floor of the tower also has similar windows, while the first-floor windows are designed as mullion-and-transom crosses with hoodmoulds. The front wall of the tower is blank, featuring the Newcastle upon Tyne coat of arms in a panel beneath a hoodmould with Tudor rose stops. The tower has a chamfered plinth above the ground floor and an external chimney stack on the right return, which is topped with two corniced and castellated octagonal chimneys.

The wing is characterized by a chamfered eaves soffit, a gabled roof with ridged crow-stepped coping, and a stone corniced end stack.