Title

Saltwell Towers, Saltwell Park, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, c1955-c1980

Caption

Saltwell Towers, Saltwell Park, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, c1955-c1980. An exterior view of Saltwell Towers, showing the east side of the south elevation from an embattled turret in the garden, south-east of the house. The house was built for William Wailes, a stained glass manufacturer, in 1871 with dark brick and yellow brick dressings. The south front has two storeys with square corner turrets and a tall three storey polygonal turret on the right. Each floor of the turret has three single windows, one on each side. The main front has a continuous parapet with sloping stone capping and four light recessed windows. In the background is a three storey entrance tower with polygonal stair turrets with a pyrmidal roof. In the foreground are the stairs leading from the garden to the top of the turret.

Date

1955

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/English Heritage

Reference

HRM19F09_384

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

73,2Mb (5,6Mb) / 14,0in x 20,3in / 4209 x 6077 (300dpi)

Keywords

photograph exterior outdoors park building England architecture country tower British English location Victorian century architectural turret Gateshead tyne and wear Britain B&W MONOCHROME country house stately home 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century English Heritage TGN Tyneside outside photograph William Ursula Clark Clark Ursula Saltwell Park Saltwell Towers William Wailes Wailes