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*

Easting:
424820

Northing:
571290

Grid Reference:
NZ424820571290

Lats/Lons:

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