Catcleugh House

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Catcleugh House is a late Victorian mansion built in 1893 located in Catcleugh, Rochester^{[disambiguation needed]}. 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 2006. It is now the main residence of private equity, who notably becomes the second formal resident of the property in over a hundred years.

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