Gosforth House, Now Brandling House, Part of High Gosforth Park Club
GOSFORTH HOUSE, NOW BRANDLING HOUSE, PART OF HIGH GOSFORTH PARK CLUB, B 1318
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121859
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gosforth House, Now Brandling House, Part of High Gosforth Park Club
- Statutory Address:
- GOSFORTH HOUSE, NOW BRANDLING HOUSE, PART OF HIGH GOSFORTH PARK CLUB, B 1318
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121859
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gosforth House, Now Brandling House, Part of High Gosforth Park Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOSFORTH HOUSE, NOW BRANDLING HOUSE, PART OF HIGH GOSFORTH PARK CLUB, B 1318
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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:
- GOSFORTH HOUSE, NOW BRANDLING HOUSE, PART OF HIGH GOSFORTH PARK CLUB, B 1318
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- North Gosforth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 24851 71251
Details
NZ 27 SW NORTH GOSFORTH B1318 (east side) Gosforth Park 4/53 27 August 1952 Gosforth House, now Brandling House, part of High Gosforth Park Club. G.V. II* Country house, now part of club and grandstand. 1755-64 by James Paine for Charles and Elizabeth Brandling. 1881 conversion to racecourse club and grandstand for High Gosforth Park Co. Ltd. 1921 restoration. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; felt-covered graduated slate roof. 3 storeys, 7 bays and one-storey links to wings. Palladian style with rusticated ground storey. Central 3 bays, projecting slightly under open pediment, contain 3 glazed C20 doors with overlights; doors also in flanking bays. Set- back outer bays contain sashes. Central and end first floor windows with chambranle architraves, blind balustrades and segmental pediments, the central one bracketed. Plain reveals to intermediate and to all second floor windows; all sashes with glazing bars. Dentilled eaves cornice and pediment; central floating cornice. One-storey extruded links, with rainwater heads dated 1867, have plinths, sash windows, mostly blocked, eaves band and blocking course; C20 century doors inserted in left link. 5-bay south front: on ground floor, arched niches alternate with blocked openings; on piano nobile, 5 windows with aedicule treatment under pediments, the outer segmental and the central round. Source: Paine Plans and Elevations 1767 Vol. I p. 15: E. Mackenzie, View of Northumberland 2nd. ed. Newcastle 1825, p.471.
Listing NGR: NZ2485171251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 304973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mackenzie, E, View of the County of Northumberland, (1825), 471
Paine, J, Plans Elevations and Sections of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses (1761), (1767), 15
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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