Cleadon Tower is a Grade II listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1949. House.

Cleadon Tower

WRENN ID
fallen-forge-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Tyneside
Constituency
South Shields MP: Emma Lewell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1949
Type
House
Address
Cleadon Tower, 10, Front Street
OS grid reference
NZ 384 623
Coordinates
54.95426, -1.40127
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cleadon Tower is a house from the 18th century that incorporates parts of an earlier structure and underwent reconstruction of the tower in 1890. The building is rendered and features a Welsh slate roof for the house and a flat roof for the tower. It has an L-shaped plan with a cross gable facing the street and the tower situated in the angle.

The south elevation has two storeys with three windows. There is a small two-light window above the central door, a square oriel window with a cornice on the upper right, and the remaining windows are three-light mullioned. All openings have label moulds. The roof includes two small gabled dormers with barge-boards, gable coping, two brick chimneys at the ends, and one on the cross gable, along with crenellation on the tower.

Inside, there is a 19th-century handrail on the staircase with decorated tread ends and one plain turned baluster on each step. The ground floor features wide three-centred arched stone lintels over two fireplaces, which are chamfered with tongue stops and have two-stepped flat and tongue stops. There is another fireplace that is covered on the ground floor. On the first floor, a chimney piece displays a false four-centred arch between tapered pilasters, fluted with a heavily moulded plinth and cornice, and the Chamber arms above it. Additionally, there are some two-panelled doors with bolection-moulded architraves and panels above.

Local climate

Cleadon Tower receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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