Gosforth Park, Border Minstrel Public House
Gosforth Park, Border Minstrel Public House
HER Number
8691
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Gosforth Park, Border Minstrel Public House
Place
Gosforth
Map Sheet
NZ27SW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Estate Building
Site Type: Specific
Estate Building
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Ancillary pavilion to country house, now public house. Dated 1757 on rainwater
head. By James Paine for Charles and Elizabeth Brandling (CBE on rainwater head).
Sandstone ashlar with plinth. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays and right coach
house extension of 2 lower storeys and one bay. Rusticated quoins to central 3 bays;
4-panel double doors in outer bays with overlight at right; central 3 bays project
slightly and have central round-headed window flanked by windows in plain reveals;
5 windows on first floor and 4 on second; all windows sashes with glazing bars of
late C19 type and voussoirs. First floor band; dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped roof
has central chimney with canted corners. One-bay, 2-storey right extension with
panelled impost band to blocked segmental arch, has inserted ground floor sash and
first floor sash in recessed panel; first floor sill string. Parapet to hipped
roof with central banded chimney. LISTED GRADE 2*
head. By James Paine for Charles and Elizabeth Brandling (CBE on rainwater head).
Sandstone ashlar with plinth. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays and right coach
house extension of 2 lower storeys and one bay. Rusticated quoins to central 3 bays;
4-panel double doors in outer bays with overlight at right; central 3 bays project
slightly and have central round-headed window flanked by windows in plain reveals;
5 windows on first floor and 4 on second; all windows sashes with glazing bars of
late C19 type and voussoirs. First floor band; dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped roof
has central chimney with canted corners. One-bay, 2-storey right extension with
panelled impost band to blocked segmental arch, has inserted ground floor sash and
first floor sash in recessed panel; first floor sill string. Parapet to hipped
roof with central banded chimney. LISTED GRADE 2*
Easting
424820
Northing
571290
Grid Reference
NZ424820571290
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 4/55; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two - The North and East, p 10