Listing Text

NZ 16 NE NEWBURN QUEEN'S ROAD (east end)
Walbottle

7/40 Walbottle Hall, nos 4 & 5
Walbottle Hall Gardens,
and outbuildings.

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C18 House, now nos 4 and 5 Walbottle Hall Gardens, and C19 left addition, now
Walbottle Hall. C18 part: local pinkish brick in English garden wall bond, now
mostly pebble-dashed; C19 part: snecked, tooled sandstone with ashlar quoins and
dressings; C18 part: 2 storeys, 6 bays; with rear wing forming L-shape; late C19
door with painted glazed panels and overlight; doorcase demolished. Late C19 sash
windows in box frames with tooled stone lintels and projecting stone sills. 3
yellow brick compound chimneys behind ridge. C19 part in baronial style: 3-storey
battlemented tower with first-floor drip string and eaves corbel table with
animal angle gargoyles. 6-light mullioned-and-transomed ground floor windows
under hood moulds. 2-storey left bay has gabled porch with bargeboards up 6 steps,
and similar 2-light windows. In canted angle an extruded corbelled oriel with
conical roof: gabled left roof coping; central conjoined octagonal ridge stacks.
Right return, rendered, irregular with 2-storey canted bay; 6-panelled door and
2 original windows; other windows altered. Most windows retain original interior
shutters. One-storey outbuildings linked to rear wing have plain openings.

Listing NGR: NZ1730366198