YOU will have noticed that I'm very interested in the great Gothic Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse.

I borrowed a book from the British Library recently, written by Waterhouse's grand-daughter Prudence Waterhouse and Colin Cunningham, which contained a complete list of his contracts. One night, when I'd consumed enough wine to make me ridiculously ambitious, I decided to tap into my laptop all of Waterhouse's contracts in the North-East. Below are the results.

I hope you can make sense of my notes: from the look of the preview, they've run on into one long take. Sorry. A number preceeding a date is the number of Waterhouse's contract (he obviously did a lot of work elsewhere). The only abbreviation that might be confusing is h&v, which stands for "heating and ventiliation".

Please let me know if you have any connections to any of these Waterhousian properties.

43 1858 Proposed porter's lodge, dton unexecuted. client: dr nathan plews (per Compton Birchall). Cost: bad debt.

44 1858-60 dton Blackwell Hs. alterations to house for E Backhouse. Contractors: general, Thomas Robson; Richardson & Ross. Cost £1,115 77 1860 dton unspecified work. JC Backhouse & Son 78 1860 Gt Ayton Cleveland Lodge. additions and alterations to existing mansion. alterations 1883-6. Client: John Hodgkin Sen.

Contractors 1883-6, general Braithwaite; heating and ventilation, DO Boyd; tiles, Craven Dunnill; chimney pieces WH Burke; Hopton Wood Stone Co.

1883-6 cost £790.

80 1860 Hamsterley, Shull.

Unspecified alterations to house. JC Backhouse. Cost £460.

91 1860 Reeth Design for school buildings. Contractor: Joseph Cleasby.

98 1861 Brinkburn, dton Examination and sketches of laterations to designs by Richardson and Ross; house completed to their designs 1862.

Client: Henry Fell Pease 99 1861-3 dton market and public offices Market building of iron with glass roof. Two blocks of offices and tower of Pease bricks with matching stone dressings. Repairs to collapsed floor and extension of market buildings.

Client: Dton Local Board of Health Contractors: general, R Stapp; chimney-piece, Joseph Bonehill; ironwork, FA Skidmore; JW Russell & Son Clerk of works: S Harrison Cost: £9,851. 1865-6: £2,615 Mkt cast iron cols supporting an iron roof, over a deep basement due to the sloping site. Basement vaults on cast iron brackets. On opening day, mkt was overcrowded and floor gave way, pitching two prize bulls and one bystander into the basement below. Human killed. Wths’ only bldng failure. Inquiry blamed faulty casting. Wths exonerated, and reputation in dton was not harmed. Wths never again built solely in iron and was always suspicious of it.

“Wths secured the dominance of the tower of dton market bldngs by a careful study of the awkwardly falling site and of the possible overbearance of the bldngs in high row above, his tower, based on principles set out in Ruskin’s Lamp of Power, allows the plainness of the greater part to disguise its height while its richly modeled upper storey and roof are clearly seen and form a focus for the heart of the town”

100 1861-4 Pilmore Hall, Hurworth New coachmen's cottages, alterations and additions to house amounting to rebuilding, new stables, extensions to hall. further alterations and extensions 1873, 1875 (proposed alterations and tower set aside 1877-9) Contractors for both: general W Richardson & Co; Thomas Robson (1861-4); J Parnell & Sons (76-9); heatuing and ventilation, GN Haden, DO Boyd; stone carving, Farmer & Brindley; tiles, T Oakden; Taylor; WB Simson & Son; stained glass, Lavers & Barraud; RB Edmundson; Heaton Butler & Bayne; chimney-pieces, W Wilson; J&H Patteson; Joseph Bonehill; Hopton Wood Stone Co; WH Burke; decoration Best & Lea; furniture and fittings, Henry Capel; ironwork, FA Skidmore, R Jones; W. MacFarlane; Hart Son Peard & Co; bells, Warner & Sons. Clerk of works: GGHoskins £14,335; 1876-9: £15,000 Used brickwork star, as at Hummersknott 101 Woodlands, dton New chimney-piece and other alterations to mansion (c1829, enlarged by Richardson & Ross 1860) Client: JW Pease Contractors: chimney-pieces, Lerclerc; tiles, Minton; ironwork FA Skidmore.

117 1861 Saltburn Proposed hotel, not built. Client: S&DR Co 128 1862-4 Uplands, dton Mansion, stables and lodge (drive shared with Hummersknott) of brick and stone with a patterned slate roof. Alterations 1868 Client: JW and A Pease for Rachel Leatham (nee Pease) Contractors: foundation J Windle; superstructure and finishing, Thos Robson; heating and ventilation, GN Haden & Sons; stone carving W Farmer; tiules Minton, D Conway, Whetstone, Garrett Bros; stained glass RB Edmundson & Son. Chimneypieces W Wilson, Thomas Oakden; ironwork FA Skidmore, R Jones Clerk of works: R Robinson Cost: £7,180 147 1863-4 Hummersknott Large house of brick and stone with low pitched slate roof; also stables, lodge and boundary walls Contractors: general Thomas Robson; heating and ventilation, W Wilson; stained glass RB Edmundson; grates DO Boyd; ironwork FA Skidmore Cost: c£6,000 175 1864-7 Backhouses Bank, High Row Building of stone with a slate roof; three storeys and dormered attic. Manager's house etc to rear by GG Hoskins 1867 Client: J Backhouse & Co Contractors: general W Richardson; h&v GN Haden; stone carving W Farmer; marble flooring TH Hartley; chimneypieces W Wilson; plaster ceiling roses, JW Hindshaw; ironwork FA Skidmore & Co, Hart Son Peard & Co. Clerk of works: GGHoskins Cost: £12,185 176 Guisborough: Hutton Hall. Large mansion of red brick with Dunhouse stone dressings with a slate roofr. Also game larder, bridges, lodge, walled garden, gardeners’ cottages, conservatories, vineries etc. plan of garden, advice on furniture, selection of carpets and tablecloths. Alterations: 1871-4 billiard room and new conservatory; 1875 cottages; 1876 alterations and stables. Client: JW Pease MP Contractors: W Richardson; structural steelwork, JS Bergheim; h&v GN Haden; stone carving, Farmer and Brindley; terracotta and pots, JM Blashfield; tiles Thos Peake, W Godwin, Minton, Cullis, JM Allen; stained glass Lavers & Barraud, Heaton Butler & Bayne, Morris & Co, RB Edmundson, FT Odell; chimneypieces WH Burke & Co, Hopton Wood Stone Co, W Wilson; grates DO Boyd; plaster ceiling roses JW Hindshaw; furniture & fittings, Farmer & Brindley, Hart Son Peard & Co, Gillow; ironwork Hart Son Peard & Co, R Jones, FA Skidmore, Lester & Hodkinson; clopck, Edward White; bells, Warner & Son; fountain, Pulham. Clerk of works: R Robinson, followed by Ed Robson Cost: £10,036; 1871-4 £14,067; stables £5,673; lodge £770 30 live-in staff, as well as rooms for visting ladies’ maids, nannies and children, so main rooms only occupied a third of the house. Wths des’d some furniture and curtain fringes and helped wuth the selection of carpets and tablecloths, he even tried to find an artist to create a picture from photographs to record jwpe’s visit to Jerusalem (they were related by marriage). Wths retiled a fireplace and paneled a room in blue and white tiles in 1870, 2yrs after the opening of Poynter’s grill room in the south kensington museum: very trendy 201 1865 dton Alterations to chimneys of house. Client: Gurney Pease 272 1867 Guisborough Hutton Railway station, of Pease brick with slate roof. Client: JW Pease MP 349 Dryderdale, Hamsterley Mansion, lodge, stables of stone with a slate roof (pos including design of fencing and garden bridges).

Client: Alfred Backhouse 367 1872-3 Hutton Hospital, Guisborough Dispensary of brick Client: JW Pease Contractors: general: Windale, Radge. Terractotta Gibbs & Canning. Tiles, Cullis, W Godwin, Clay & Son. Chimneypieces, Beauland. Grates DO Boyd Cost: not distinguished from mission room 368 1872-3 Hutton Mission Room, Guisborough Reading room and cottage of brick with timber and lead turret Client: JW Pease Contractors: general: Windale, Radge. Terractotta, G Gunton. Tiles, Cullis, W Godwin, Clay & Son. Glass FT Odell, ironwork R Jones Cost of hosp and mission room: £3,535 380 1873-6 Pierremont Gatehouse, clock tower, and conservatory, additional wing to existing mansion and other alterations including decoration of hall.

Contractors: general JW Beauland; heating and ventilating, DO Boyd; stone carving, Farmer & Brindley; tiles W Godwin, Minton; stained glass, RB Edmundson; ironwork, Hart Son Peard & Co; clock J Moore; fountain, Fenning Cost: £9,110 381 1873-5 Hurworth Grange Large house of brick with stone dressings and patterned tile roof and stables. Additional wing with billiard room 1886-7 Client: JE Backhouse Contractors: general, Parnell &Sons, h&V, DO Boyd; stonecarving Farmer & Brindley. Tiles, W Godwin, JM Allen, Craven Dunnill & Co (1886); stainedglass RB Edmundson, FT Odell; furniture/fittings, Henry Capel; iron work, Hart Son Peard & Co; R Jones; plaster ornaments, G Jackson; bell, J Warner & Sons. Cost: £15,000; 1886-7 £1,500 381 1873 dton Unspecified work. Client: Chas Pease 389 1873-7 Middlesbrough Grammar School College buildings of red brick with stone dressings of two storeys with dormered attic and central tower with slate roofs.

Client: JW Pease Contractors: general J Johnson; h&v DO Boyd; carving Farmer & Brindley; tiles, W Godwin; mosaic flooring, J Rust; chimneypieces, Hopton Wood Stone & Co; furniture & fittings, G Goodall; ironwork R Jones, Hart Son Peard & Co; clock Gillett & Bland.

Cost £10,295 390 1873-5 Middlesbro Town Hall Design for municipal offices and town hall, not built.

408-9 victoria drive, Saltburn 408 1874-6 Overdene, Saltburn House and stables of red brick with stone dressings and a tile roof, with walled garden and glasshouses. The mirror image of 409.

Client: William Whitwell Contractors: general, Shafto & Barry; h&v DO Boyd; stone carving, Farmer & Brindley; tiles W Simpson, Craven Dunnill & Co; chimneypieces, Hopton Wood Stone & Co.

Cost: £9,000 409 1874-6 Woodlands, Saltburn House of red brick with stone dressings and a atile roof.

Client: Francis Fox Contractors: general, Shafto & Barry; h&v DO Boyd; stone carving, Farmer & Brindley; stained glass, FT Odell; chimneypieces, Hopton Wood Stone & Co. ironwork, Hart Son Peard & Co; plaster ceiling roses, JW Hindshaw Cost: £6,050 418 1875 Guisborough Public ornamental fountain. Client: JW Pease. Contractors: stone carving, Farmer & Brindley. Cost £100 423 1875 Pinchinthorpe, Cleveland Elevations for cottages. Client: JW Pease 428 1876 Great Ayton. Cleveland Lodge Cotts Pair of large cottages of brick with ornamental half-timbering to one wing, with slate roof Client: JB Hodgkin Contractors, general, Woodward; Grierson. Tiles Craven Dunnill & Co; ironwork, Hart Son Peard & Co Cost: £2,910 (incl shop below) 429 1876 Gt Ayton,Cleveland Lodge Shop Client: JB Hodgkin Contractors, general, Woodward; Grierson. Tiles Craven Dunnill & Co; ironwork, Hart Son Peard & Co 443 1877-9 Overbeck, Guisborough House of pink brick with red brick dressings with a Westmorland slate roof. Alterations 1889 Client WC Trevor Contractors: general, Johnson; tiles Craven Dunnill; grates, DO Boyud, GN Haden; furniture and fittings, Henry Capel; ironwork R Jones, Hart Son Peard & Co; plaster ceiling roses, JW Hindshaw Cost £4,730; 1889 £610 469 1879-80 Duncombe Pk, Helmsley Unspecified work, prob conversion of stables to dwelling after a fire in the mansion. Client: Earl of Feversham Contractors: Barry Cost £1,345 487 1881-5 Bushell Hill/Mowden Hall, dton Large house and stables of patterned red brick and terracotta with tiled roof built as an extension to house by Jno Ross, 1862. layout of gardens 1886-8 with advice from E Milner. Client: JB Pease Contractors: general, Wm Southern; h&v GN Haden, DO Boyd; modeling, Farmer & Brindley; tiles, Craven Dunnill; mosaic flooring, JF Ebner; chimneypieces, Hopton Wood Stone Co; ironwork, Hart Son Peard & co, R Jones Cost £13,195; 1886-8 £670 489 1881-3 Grinkle Park, Loftus, Cleveland Mansion of stone with a slate roof, tower and conservatory. The stables were designed by someone else.

Client: CM Palmer MP Contractors: general, T Dickinson; h&v DO Boyd; stone carving, Farmer and Brindley; terracotta, JC Edwrads; tiles, W Godwin; chimneypieces, Hopton Wood Stone Co, Blackmore & Nixson; ironwork, R Jones, Hart Son Peard & Co Cost £8,500 516 1884-5 Middlesbrough Grammar Sch New wing Client; Trustees of Mbro High Sch Contractors: general, J Johnson; tiles Craven Dunnill & Co; ironwork, Hart Son Peard & Co Cost £3,820 518 Concert Hall, Saltburn Hall and service rooms of yeloow brick and terracotta with iron framed roof Contractors: general, TD Ridley; h&v GN haden, DO Boyd; grates, DO Boyd; furntirue fittings, maple & Co; ironwork, Hart Son Peard & Co, R Jones Cost £4,165 524 1885-6 Mbro Gram Scho chemical labs Clients; Trustees Mbro High Sch Contractors: general, J Johnson; ironwork, Hart Son Peard & Co, R Jones Cost £1,385 541 1887-9 Guisborough Gr Sch (now Prior Pursglove Sixth Form College) Master’s house and school; ground floor of grey stone with red brick and yellow terracotta above, with a slate roof. Alterations 1897 Client: Chrmn and Governors of Pursglove Charity (per JW Pease) Contractors: general, Adam White; chimneypieces, Hopton Wood Stone Co; ironwork, Hart Son Peard & Co; faience, Burmantofts £4,210 553 1888-90 Mbro Gr Sch Addition of wing. Client: Trustees of Mbro High Sch Contractors: general, J Johnson; tiles Craven Dunnill & Co; ironwork, Hart Son Peard & Co £2,575 611 1896 Mary Pease Almshouses Almshouse of brick with slate roofs. Design work by Paul Wths (his son) Client: JW Pease Contractors: general, Robt Kitching; ironwork, Wm Rusell & Son Clerk of works: JP Prichett £1,500 647 no date 29 Dartmouth Rd, London Last project/contract Unspecified work for JW Pease