Jesmond, Burdon Terrace, Fleming Memorial Hospital, lodge

HER Number:
9071

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Jesmond, Burdon Terrace, Fleming Memorial Hospital, lodge

Place:
Jesmond

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Lodge

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Hospital porter's lodge. 1887. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roof with terracotta ridges. Jacobean style. L-plan 1 storey, 3 bays. Round-arched door with archivelt in extruded stone porch with half-fluted pilasters, entablature and balustraded parapet with end ball fmials. Projecting right bay with quoins and plinth and a shaped pedimented gable with panel in elaborate surround; inscription illegible. Left bay has plinth and a quoined half-octagonal end with cornice and parapet. Stone mullioned and transomed windows. Roof hipped over left end and raised in centre to a pyramidal form crowned by an octagonal moulded stone stack on a brick base. Similar detail on other fronts, with another shaped gable on right return. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
24966

Northing:
65824

Grid Reference:
NZ2496665824

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 8/612