Ochre Yards · Raven Road
Ochre Mews
Mandale Homes' award-winning conversion of the Grade II listed Boiler Shop of Greenesfield works: 59 homes, flats 1–44 in the listed building and 45–59 in the brick range beside it, with the car park in the vaults. Freeholder Dickinson Egerton (RBM) Ltd, which also runs Hunters Residential Block Management, the managing agent.
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| Postal address | Ochre Mews, Raven Road, NE8 2FF |
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| Homes | 59 (flats 1–59): flats 45–59 are in the brick range with the added top storey, entered from its own door; the rest are in the listed Boiler Shop. The 2020 planning report said 58 (42 + 16) C · confirmed |
| Storeys | Listed building two storeys over a tall basement; annex three storeys C · confirmed source |
| Tenure | Leasehold C · confirmed |
| Management company | Not yet recorded — one of Ochre Yards One to Eleven, or a newer company. U · unverified |
| Managing agent | Hunters Residential Block Management C · confirmed |
| Catchment primary school | Caedmon Community Primary School C · confirmed Check your own address with Gateshead Council's school admissions team: catchments are reviewed every year. |
| Parking | 38 surface and 14 undercroft resident spaces plus 14 visitor (planning report); the undercroft is the vaulted car park behind the arch gates; 44 bicycle spaces C · confirmed source |
| EV charging | Chargers in the underground car park (Mandale states 59 charging points) C · confirmed |
| Listed | Grade II — the former Boiler Shop of Greensfield Railway Works, list entry 1248971, listed 15 March 1979 C · confirmed source |
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Where it is · approximate (postcode centre)
NZ 2497 6331 OS grid · 54.96381, -1.61140
The freeholder is Dickinson Egerton (RBM) Ltd (until 2023 Dickinson Harrison (RBM) Ltd): the 2023 service charge demands named it as landlord, and Hunters manages the building as its agent, according to a 2024 First-tier Tribunal decision (MAN/00CH/LSC/2023/0031). That decision upheld the freeholder’s apportionment of service charges by floor area across five duplexes; the decision is a public record and worth reading before buying here.
Mandale Homes’ conversion of the Grade II listed works building won Best Residential Renovation/Redevelopment in the UK at the 2022 UK Property Awards. The car park is inside the arches, behind a pair of gates cut with two North Eastern Railway tank engines on a lattice bridge — the best piece of new ironwork on the estate and easy to miss after dark.
The gates to the vaulted car park, September 2026. The listed building is the works’ former Boiler Shop, list entry 1248971, Grade II since 1979: circa 1877, snecked squared stone with bands and a bracketed cornice under a Welsh slate roof, two storeys over a tall basement that grows as the hill drops, ten bays with round-arched openings below and segmental above, round windows in the gables, and inside “a completely barrel vaulted ground storey with ten parallel vaults on substantial piers” — the vaults that are now the car park behind the engine gates. When listed it was a vehicle repair shop. The scheme was consented as DC/20/00137/FUL in 2020 as 58 homes: 42 in the listed building and 16 in a three-storey annex beside it, with EV charging required by condition. As built there are 59, and the second building is not a plain new-build: it is an older red-brick range with stone-silled windows, carrying a new clad top storey, entered through its own door for flats 45–59.
The entrance to flats 45–59, September 2026.
The managing agent’s sign on the building gives Hunters Residential Block Management’s contact details: 01422 893 726, blockmanagement@hunters.com and huntersrbm.com, an address that no longer works; see Hunters Residential Block Management for its current details.
The name
Ochre Mews is the scheme's name; the building is the works' Boiler Shop, and the estate's name comes from the ochre-coloured ground of the railway yards.
- Managing agent sign on the building, photographed September 2026
- Gateshead planning committee report DC/20/00137/FUL
- Historic England list entry 1248971 — The Former Boiler Shop of Greensfield Railway Works
- Mandale Homes — Ochre Yards named best residential renovation in the UK, UK Property Awards 2022
- Mandale Homes — Ochre Yards
- First-tier Tribunal decision MAN/00CH/LSC/2023/0031