Newbus Arms Hotel

HURWORTH NEASHAM ROAD NZ 30 NW (South side, off)

11/101 Newbus Arms Hotel 20/3/67 (previously listed as Newbus Grange)

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Country house, now an hotel. Shown on O.S. map as Newbus Grange. Possibly early C17 but greatly altered and extended c.1820. Rendered brick and rubble; graduated green slate roofs with rendered chimney stacks. Front range with two adjoining parallel rear wings. Regency Gothick details.

3-storey, 3-bay entrance front. Wide central porch with Tudor-arched doorway and 4-pane side lights framed by thin buttresses. Flanking 3-light bow windows with similar framing buttresses; porch and bow windows have elaborate embattled parapets. 2-light windows above porch and 3-light windows in outer bays, under hoodmoulds on top floor, have casements with Perpendicular-style wood tracery. Small gables with footstones crowning each bay. Low-pitched roof with end and ridge stacks. Added one-storey, 2-bay left wing has projecting semi-octagonal bay with similar 2-light windows and a steep pyramidal roof.

3-storey, 5-bay garden front, the second bay projecting and canted-with 3 windows. Glazed doors in second and fourth bays and in extruded porch, with verandah above, on left bay. Window details similar to those on entrance front. Embattled parapets hiding low-pitched roofs with transverse ridge stacks.

Interior fitted in late C19, has Perpendicular-style panelling, doors and chimney-pieces.

C20 additions on right return and rear are not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3191509671