The Gray Convalescent Home- Safe Return from WW1

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Reference WMO/286624

Address:

The Staincliffe Hotel

The Cliff

Seaton Carew

TS25 1AB

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Other structure/building
Materials:
  • Brick Brick
  • Glass Glass
  • Stone Slate
Lettering: No lettering
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Building handed over on 23 August 1921 as a thank offering for the safe return of his son, Captain William Gray, from the war. At that date it accepted 34 patients and included a recreation room with seating for 200 people. The Staincliffe Hotel was built in 1869 as a house for the wealthy Hartlepool merchant Thomas Walker. The large villa was sold following Walkers death and the new owner added a billiards room to the rear in 1903. In 1921 the building was sold to Cresswell Gray, for use as a convalescence home for the workers of his father's ship building firm. The building was sold again in 1929 and converted to a hotel, the original conservatory was demolished in the 1930s and replaced with a ballroom. This large villa, formerly situated within very extensive grounds, occupies a large plot on the cliff top facing east over the North Sea. The building is of brick construction, painted and rendered, under a mixture of pitched and hipped roofs of slate. Its eclectic styling consists of several sections, including a main central section to the front of two storeys with attics and cellars, which has a shaped gable and a crennellated tower of three storeys.
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