High Street, Newburn House

HER Number:
8914

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
High Street, Newburn House

Place:
Newburn

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
House

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
House, now house and surgery. Mid-late C18. Sandstone rubble with quoins; rear to street incised render; Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings. L-plan. 2 storeys; 3 irregular bays with lower one-bay wings, the left breaking forward. Pedimented Tuscan porch,at left of main house,with panelled, half-glazed door and side lights. French window at right under flat stone lintel; similar lintels and projecting stone sills to 3 windows above, one on each floor in gabled left wing, and one in right wing. Roof has curved kneelers to main section; ashlar-corniced end brick chimneys to this and to wings, and side chimney to wing breaking forward. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
416780

Northing:
565250

Grid Reference:
NZ416780565250

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 7/36; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2014, Newburn House, Newburn, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Assessment