Description

SE 57 NE
3/73

OULSTON
YEARSLEY ROAD
(Norrth side, off)

Mount House

II

Hunting lodge with attached cottage. Early-mid C18 with early-mid C19 attached
cottage. Original section for the 4th Viscount Fauconberg. Ashlar sandstone
and coursed dressed sandstone, Westmorland slate roofs. 2 storeys, 1:1 bays.
Lodge: ashlar; rubble plinth, chamfered rusticated quoins; round arch extending
through both storeys, with recessed panel with round-arched ground-floor window
with projecting imposts and keystones, first-floor sill band, and first-floor
2-light casement window; moulded cornice; hipped roof with plinth at apex for
finial (finial removed). Cottage to right: of 2 lower storeys; to left, 4-panel
door below overlight, and on each floor a side-sliding sash window; end stack to
right. Rear of lodge: openings blind; eaves stack. Left return of lodge:
elevation matching that of front. The building marks the highest point in
Newburgh Park.

Listing NGR: SE 55731 75050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26486086

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)