{"entry-date":"2026-01-28","start-date":"1971-12-23","end-date":"","entity":42189995,"name":"CLIFF HOUSE","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"06/0095/IISTAR","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":242,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.431652 55.036265, -1.431632 55.036284, -1.43161 55.036277, -1.431473 55.036414, -1.431607 55.03645, -1.431611 55.036446, -1.431751 55.036482, -1.431752 55.036478, -1.431957 55.036494, -1.431976 55.036423, -1.431952 55.036419, -1.431956 55.036369, -1.431919 55.036347, -1.431919 55.036345, -1.43187 55.036341, -1.431858 55.036303, -1.431778 55.03631, -1.431652 55.036265)))","point":"POINT (-1.431741 55.036389)","quality":"authoritative","uprns":"47103392","description":"House. Circa 1768 with early C19 alterations. Painted render with plinth and quoins Pantiled roof with flat stone gable copings. Painted brick chimney at right, painted rendered at left. Irregular plan. Main sea front: 2 storeys, 5 windows all sashes with glazing bars; sill bands; one-bay left wing has double door in pantiled gabled porch under tripartite sash. Right entrance front of 2 storeys, 3 windows and extension of one storey and attic, one bay, has central 6-panel door in flat classical doorcase; sash windows with projecting stone sills and glazing bars. Interior shows some original and some C19 panelling; shutters to windows, with mirrors set in those of first floor north room. Centre of house glass-roofed above Cl9 stair and enclosed first- floor grotto, now aviary. Cellar has iron-barred cell, possibly bonded store, with neck manacles attached. Historical note: bought in 1846 by Robert Arkwright, son of Sir Richard, for his wife who was daughter of the actor Stephen Kemble. Source: W.W. Tomlinson, Historical Notes on Cullercoats, Whitley and Monkseaton, 1893, pp 19, 117-120.","listed-building":"1299734"}