Description

ROTHBURY ADDYCOMBE GARDENS
NU 0501
25/260 Addycombe Cottages
(Nos. 13-19
25.3.73 consecutive) with
attached rear walls
and outbuildings
(formerly listed as
part of Nos 1 -22
Addycombe Cottages)

Terrace of houses 1873 by Norman Shaw for Lord Armstrong, restored and rear
walls reduced in height 1978 by Spence and Price of Newcastle. Rubble with
rock-faced and margined dressings; red clay tile roofs with ornamental
terracotta ridges; purple slates on rear outbuildings.

Terrace of 5 houses; originally divided into flats, but the 3 centre houses
have been converted to 2-storey dwellings. End houses 2 bays, centre houses
1 bay. Vertical-panelled doors with plain overlights; 2- and 3-light mullioned-
and-transomed windows, the upper in gabled half dormers. Ridge stacks with
battered faces. Returns show inserted C20 window and original slit window in
gable; bargeboards.

Rear elevation: End houses have gabled rear wings, with 1st floor doors
reached by external stone stairs. End houses have gabled outbuildings, centre
houses pent outbuildings; attached yard walls with re-set arched coping.

Built as cottages for retiring staff of the Armstrong household.

Listing NGR: NU0593801947

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26652298

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)