Burdon Terrace, Fleming Memorial Hospital, lodge

Burdon Terrace, Fleming Memorial Hospital, lodge

HER Number
9071
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Burdon Terrace, Fleming Memorial Hospital, lodge
Place
Jesmond
Map Sheet
NZ26NW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Lodge
Site Type: Specific
Lodge
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
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
424966
Northing
565824
Grid Reference
NZ424966565824
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 8/612