Yeavering House

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NZ 17 SE 17/347

PONTELAND JAMESON MANOR GIDEON WALK No 25 (Yeavering House)

(Formerly listed as NORTHUMBRIA POLICE H.Q. Block 13)

GV II

Superintendent's House of cottage homes for children. 1903 by Leeson for the Newcastle Board of Guardians. Later Police Headquarters and college.

Cavity wall in stretcher bond; pebbledashed and painted on first floor. Welsh slate roof. House with linking range of offices and water tower attached to rear. Domestic Revival style.

House: two storeys plus attics, three bays with single-storey one-bay side wings. Central two-leaf, six-panel door, and fanlight with radiating glazing bars under semicircular hood. Canted five-sided bay windows on ground floor with 12- and eight-pane sashes. 12-pane sashes above. Dentil cornice. High hipped roof with two hipped dormers and tall corniced lateral stacks. Single-storey wings have 12-pane sashes; canted bay windows on returns.

Single-storey six-bay linking range to rear has 12-pane sashes.

Tall, square water tower with cornice, large stone water spouts at corners and tall parapet with scalloped top.

A good example of buildings for the enlightened approach to child care in the early C20.

Listing NGR: NZ1558874096