Banqueting House About 500 Metres East and 300 Metres South of Gibside
BANQUETING HOUSE ABOUT 500 METRES EAST AND 300 METRES SOUTH OF GIBSIDE, B6314
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1355118
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Banqueting House About 500 Metres East and 300 Metres South of Gibside
- Statutory Address:
- BANQUETING HOUSE ABOUT 500 METRES EAST AND 300 METRES SOUTH OF GIBSIDE, B6314
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1355118
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Banqueting House About 500 Metres East and 300 Metres South of Gibside
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANQUETING HOUSE ABOUT 500 METRES EAST AND 300 METRES SOUTH OF 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:
- BANQUETING HOUSE ABOUT 500 METRES EAST AND 300 METRES SOUTH OF 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 18164 58634
Details
NZ 15 NE WHICKHAM B6314 (north side) Gibside Estate
10/109 Banqueting house about 500 metres east and1.2.50 300 metres south of Gibside.
G.V. I I
Banqueting house. 1751 by Daniel Garrett for George Bowes. Restored 1980 by Charlewood, Curry ,Wilson and Atkinson. Sandstone ashlar; concealed roof. Gothick style. Large room with rear apse facing vista and projecting wings. One storey, 3 by 3 bays. Entrance front: central stepped arcaded 3-bay loggia on octagonal columns. Niches in rear wall; 6-panel doors,with deep reeded reveals, in inner returns of wings. Tall pointed parapet holds quatrefoil and cross ornament; wings have battlemented parapets. Garden front: 5 curved steps to central sash with opening panels below: flanking sashes in apse, one sash at either side, all with glazing bars. Tall pierced screen wall and 3 stepped, crocketed, ornamented gables over the apse; battlemented side parapets. Cusped ogee surrounds to windows. Similar surrounds to niches on returns. Interior: transverse main hall with mid-side apses, the inner holding fireplace and flanking niches, ogee- headed with moulded plasterwork. Similar heads to mirrors above cable- moulded dado rail. Coved ceiling and patterned plaster frieze. COUNTRY LIFE 26 SEPTEMBER 1974.
Listing NGR: NZ1816458634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303874
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 26 September, (1974)
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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