Catcleugh House

Catcleugh House is a late Victorian mansion built in 1893 located in Catcleugh, Rochesterdn. The house was built by the then Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company for Charles Hawksley, son of renowned reservoir and waterworks architect and engineer Thomas Hawksley. The T and C Hawksley company had been commissioned by the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company (now referred to as Northumbrian Water) to build a reservoir in Catcleugh that would supplement Newcastle-upon-Tynes dwindling fresh water supply.

The mansion has been maintained and owned by Northumbrian Water for most of its life and had been used primarily as a recreational site and for visitors and guests before being sold during 2005. It is now the main residence of a financier, who notably becomes the second formal owner of the property in over a hundred years.

The house comes with extensive grounds of a mixture of woods and grasslands. The river Reed flows through the grounds of the house with an abundance of freshwater salmon during winter months. A short walk through the woodlands leads to the Catcleugh Reservoir with it's picturesque setting.