Banqueting House About 500 Metres East And 300 Metres South Of Gibside is a Grade I listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1950. A 1751 Banqueting house.
Banqueting House About 500 Metres East And 300 Metres South Of Gibside
- WRENN ID
- open-gateway-hawthorn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1950
- Type
- Banqueting house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 15 NE WHICKHAM B6314 (north side) Gibside Estate
10/109 Banqueting house about 500 metres east and1.2.50 300 metres south of Gibside.
G.V. I I
Banqueting house. 1751 by Daniel Garrett for George Bowes. Restored 1980 by Charlewood, Curry ,Wilson and Atkinson. Sandstone ashlar; concealed roof. Gothick style. Large room with rear apse facing vista and projecting wings. One storey, 3 by 3 bays. Entrance front: central stepped arcaded 3-bay loggia on octagonal columns. Niches in rear wall; 6-panel doors,with deep reeded reveals, in inner returns of wings. Tall pointed parapet holds quatrefoil and cross ornament; wings have battlemented parapets. Garden front: 5 curved steps to central sash with opening panels below: flanking sashes in apse, one sash at either side, all with glazing bars. Tall pierced screen wall and 3 stepped, crocketed, ornamented gables over the apse; battlemented side parapets. Cusped ogee surrounds to windows. Similar surrounds to niches on returns. Interior: transverse main hall with mid-side apses, the inner holding fireplace and flanking niches, ogee- headed with moulded plasterwork. Similar heads to mirrors above cable- moulded dado rail. Coved ceiling and patterned plaster frieze. COUNTRY LIFE 26 SEPTEMBER 1974.
Listing NGR: NZ1816458634
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