Orchard Guest House
ORCHARD GUEST HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041945
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Guest House
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD GUEST HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041945
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Guest House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD GUEST HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- ORCHARD GUEST HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rothbury
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 05508 01703
Details
ROTHBURY HIGH STREET NU 0501 (North side) 25/295 Orchard Guest House GV II House. c.1800 incorporating some earlier fabric, altered in mid C19. Squared tooled stone front, rubble left return and rear; tooled dressings; Welsh slate roof with one stack rebuilt in brick and rendered. Rectangular block with shorter parallel range to rear.
Front 3 storeys, 5 bays, slightly irregular. Right-of-centre 6-panel door in C19 stop-chamfered surround with moulded cornice; boarded door in raised stone surround on far left. Between doors a late C19 bay window with paired 4-pane sashes; other windows similar but in raised stone surrounds. Eaves cornice; coped gables; stepped-and-banded left end stack, stepped right end stack. Lower part of left return shows rubble of earlier building. Rear elevation shows various sash windows including 18-pane stair window.
Interior: Entrance lobby has late C19 half-glazed door with coloured margins. Lounge (east end of ground floor) has floral plaster cornice; entrance hall, stair well and passageways on upper floors have cornice of square panels with egg-and-dart ornament. Full-height dog-leg stair with stick balusters and moulded ramped handrail. 6-panel doors, some with fielded panels; panelled shutters.
Rear wings largely mid-C19, and not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NU0550801703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236641
- 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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