Sleetbeck

NY 47 NE BEWCASTLE SLEETBECK

8/46 Sleetbeck

G.V. II

House. Probably late C17 for Sowerby family, with alterations dated with initials, 1744 W. (&) A.G. (William & Anne Greenwell) over rear entrance. Dressed calciferous sandstone on squared plinth with raised quoins; steeply pitched green slate roof with coped gables and kneelers, ashlar ridge chimney stacks. 2½ storeys, 7 bays. Off-centre C20 glazed door in moulded architrave with dentilled moulded pediment; carved coat of arms of Greenwell with Sowerby, above. 2-pane sash windows in C18 raised stone surrounds. 2-light attic windows retain their original chamfered mullions and chamfered surrounds. Out-shut to rear has entrance in plain stone surround, datestone above decorated with carved scallop shells and leaves. Small blocked window to left; other blocked windows are C18 and C19 with C20 windows in C20 openings. William Greenwell was Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1739, see Hudleston & Boumphrey, Cumberland Families & Heraldry, 1978, pp139-140 & p316.

Listing NGR: NY4985776182