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Latitude: 55.3094 / 55°18'33"N
Longitude: -1.9148 / 1°54'53"W
OS Eastings: 405508
OS Northings: 601703
OS Grid: NU055017
Mapcode National: GBR H721.8K
Mapcode Global: WHB0Q.KTF3
Plus Code: 9C7W835P+Q3
Entry Name: Orchard Guest House
Listing Date: 25 August 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1041945
English Heritage Legacy ID: 236641
Location: Rothbury, Northumberland, NE65
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Rothbury
Built-Up Area: Rothbury
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Upper Coquetdale
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
ROTHBURY HIGH STREET
NU 0501
(North side)
25/295 Orchard Guest House
GV II
House. c.1800 incorporating some earlier fabric, altered in mid C19. Squared
tooled stone front, rubble left return and rear; tooled dressings; Welsh slate
roof with one stack rebuilt in brick and rendered. Rectangular block with
shorter parallel range to rear.
Front 3 storeys, 5 bays, slightly irregular. Right-of-centre 6-panel door in
C19 stop-chamfered surround with moulded cornice; boarded door in raised stone
surround on far left. Between doors a late C19 bay window with paired 4-pane
sashes; other windows similar but in raised stone surrounds. Eaves cornice;
coped gables; stepped-and-banded left end stack, stepped right end stack.
Lower part of left return shows rubble of earlier building. Rear elevation
shows various sash windows including 18-pane stair window.
Interior: Entrance lobby has late C19 half-glazed door with coloured margins.
Lounge (east end of ground floor) has floral plaster cornice; entrance hall,
stair well and passageways on upper floors have cornice of square panels with
egg-and-dart ornament. Full-height dog-leg stair with stick balusters and
moulded ramped handrail. 6-panel doors, some with fielded panels; panelled
shutters.
Rear wings largely mid-C19, and not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NU0550801703
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