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Latitude: 55.0611 / 55°3'39"N
Longitude: -1.7575 / 1°45'26"W
OS Eastings: 415588
OS Northings: 574096
OS Grid: NZ155740
Mapcode National: GBR J95X.9J
Mapcode Global: WHC38.Z18X
Plus Code: 9C7W366V+C2
Entry Name: Yeavering House
Listing Date: 22 August 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1178626
English Heritage Legacy ID: 238841
ID on this website: 101178626
Location: Northumberland, NE20
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Ponteland
Built-Up Area: Smallburn
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Ponteland St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
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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
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