Sleetbeck

Sleetbeck is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century and was built for the Sowerby family. It has alterations that are marked with the initials W. and A.G. (William and Anne Greenwell) above the rear entrance, dated 1744. The building is constructed from dressed calciferous sandstone on a squared plinth with raised quoins and features a steeply pitched green slate roof with coped gables and kneelers, along with ashlar ridge chimney stacks.

The house is 2½ storeys high and has 7 bays. There is an off-centre 20th-century glazed door set in a moulded architrave with a dentilled moulded pediment above it, and a carved coat of arms of the Greenwell family alongside the Sowerby arms above the door. The windows are 2-pane sash types set in 18th-century raised stone surrounds. The attic features 2-light windows that retain their original chamfered mullions and chamfered surrounds.

At the rear, there is an out-shut with an entrance in a plain stone surround, and a datestone above it is decorated with carved scallop shells and leaves. There is a small blocked window to the left, and other blocked windows date from the 18th and 19th centuries, with 20th-century windows in 20th-century openings. William Greenwell, who was the Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1739, is mentioned in Hudleston & Boumphrey's "Cumberland Families & Heraldry," published in 1978.