Coquet House
COQUET HOUSE, THE BUTTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041738
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coquet House
- Statutory Address:
- COQUET HOUSE, THE BUTTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041738
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coquet House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COQUET HOUSE, THE BUTTS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COQUET HOUSE, THE BUTTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warkworth
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 24914 05949
Details
NU 2405 WARKWORTH THE BUTTS (West side) 22/257 Coquet House
II
House and attached outbuildings. Early C18 remodelled c.1822. Squared stone; Welsh slate roof with one stack rebuilt in orange brick. Irregular parallelogram in plan. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Left-of-centre renewed panelled door with 5-pane overlight. Left two renewed 12-pane sashes; right blocked doorway and two similar windows, one inserted in a second blocked door. All ground-floor windows have keyed supra-lintels. Large upper windows with timber lintels, holding paired 8-pane sashes. Coped gables; end stacks, left rebuilt on old base.
Left return shows 4-pane attic casement and 1-bay early C19 wing raised on C18 outshut. Right return shows boarded attic window and attached outbuildings to right. Rear elevation: 12-pane sash stair window, in outshut, and 2 similar windows in gable end of C19 wing on right. Attached outbuilding range on left has inner return with boarded door, boarded double doors under timber lintel, 9-pane casement and boarded door with 4-pane overlight.
Interior: 6-panel doors and panelled shutters throughout. Open-well stone stair, brought from Brandenburgh House London c.1822, has wrought-iron anthemion-pattern balustrade, wreathed and moulded handrail and curtail step. Early C19 cast-iron fireplaces.
Historical note: Said to have been built for the Duke's fisherman. Early C19 remodelling perhaps by Mr. John Forster who bought fittings from Brandenburgh House to Warkworth House (now Warkworth House Hotel, q.v.).
Listing NGR: NU2491405949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237148
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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