Lesbury House
LESBURY HOUSE, A1068
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041792
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lesbury House
- Statutory Address:
- LESBURY HOUSE, A1068
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041792
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lesbury House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LESBURY HOUSE, A1068
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:
- LESBURY HOUSE, A1068
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 23390 11583
Details
NU 2311 LESBURY A 1068 (East side) Lesbury
19/88 Lesbury House
II
House, c.1800 incorporating earlier C18 rear wing; major extensions by Browne family in mid-C19. Front and left return ashlar, diagonally-tooled on ground floor and vertically-tooled above. Other parts squared tooled stone. Welsh slate roofs. Older part L-plan; mid-C19 east extension has rear wings enclosing stable yard.
South elevation. Main block 2 storeys, 5 bays, slightly asymmetric. Plinth, sill bands. 3 steps up to right-of-centre renewed fielded-panel door in renewed surround with pilasters, moulded cornice and blocking course. 12-pane sash windows. Moulded eaves cornice. Hipped roof with 2 stepped-and-corniced ridge stacks. To right the single-storey 3-bay mid-C19 part with similar detail and fenestration; coped right end gable with corniced stack. Main block has similar 3-bay left return, except that central bay windows are blind; set back to left is 4-bay rear wing showing varied fenestration including paired 8-pane sashes under lintel with diamond-shaped keystones; left end bay is C19 extension. Rear elevation of main block shows arched window, with intersecting glazing bars, above 12-pane Yorkshire sash with external iron bars.
Interior: Sitting room has original cornice with egg-and-dart and acanthus ornament. Dog-leg stair with stick balusters, moulded and ramped handrail, moulded newels and shaped tread ends. Two segmental-arched chamfered fireplaces of early C18 kitchen in room adjacent to present kitchen. Sitting Room, Library and Drawing Room have carved stone Adam fireplaces from Alnwick Castle.
Listing NGR: NU2339011583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236978
- 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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