Gibside
GIBSIDE, B6314
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1299730
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Gibside
- Statutory Address:
- GIBSIDE, B6314
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1299730
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Gibside
- Statutory Address 1:
- GIBSIDE, B6314
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:
- GIBSIDE, B6314
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 17615 58911
Details
NZ 15 NE WHICKHAM B6314 (north side) Gibside Estate. 10/106 Gibside 1.2.50
G.V. II*
Large house. 1603-20 for William Blakiston; enlarged mid-C18 for George Bowes; 1805 top floor removed, original porch reconstructed and high battlemented parapet added for 10th Earl of Strathmore. Ashlar sandstone. Main block: two storeys, 5 bays. Central square projecting bay contains 3-centred-arched door in Tuscan doorcase with tall plinths; cartouche flanked by figures above entablature; plaque below entablature inscribed WB 1620 and BS 1805. Mullioned and transomed 6-light windows in bays either side and above door; 2 lights in returns of bays and set back at left. High battlements, those above bays 2 and 3 containing cross slits. Later wing projects at right: 2 storeys, 4 bays: stone mullioned and transomed 2-light windows. Roofless at time of survey. Sources: C. Hussey 'Gibside,County Durham' I and II in Country Life Feb. 8 and Feb. 15, 1952, 354-357 and 422-425. Durham County Council catalogue Streatlam and Gibside The Bowes and Strathmore Families in Co. Durham 1980.
Listing NGR: NZ1761558911
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303871
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 15 February, (1952)
Country Life in 8 February, (1952)
Durham County Council Catalogue in Streatlam and Gibside The Bowes and Strathmore Families in County Durham, (1980)
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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