Axwell House is a mansion house and Grade II* listed building, situated at Axwell Park, Blaydon

Blaydon

Blaydon-on-Tyne is a town in the North East of England in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The former urban district, however, extends much further, its fourteen and a half square miles constituting the largest administrative district, after Newcastle, on Tyneside...

, Tyne and Wear

Tyne and Wear

Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in north east England around the mouths of the Rivers Tyne and Wear. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972...

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An early manor house on the site was acquired by James Clavering, a merchant adventurer of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1629 for £1700. In 1758 his descendant Sir Thomas Clavering

Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet

Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet succeeded to the Baronetcy of Axwell and to the family estates on the death of his father in 1748....

 replaced the house with a substantial mansion and assisted architect James Paine (1712–1789) in the Palladian design of the new house.

Having stood empty, neglected and deteriorating the property was acquired in 2006 by property developers for restoration and conversion to residential apartments.