Border Minstrel Public House To North West Of Brandling House

NZ 27 SW NORTH GOSFORTH B.1318 (east side) Gosforth Park 4/55 27 August 1952 Border Minstrel P.H. to north west of Brandling House. G.V. II* Ancillary pavilion to country house, now public house. Dated 1757 on rainwater head. By James Paine for Charles and Elizabeth Brandling (CBE on rainwater head). Sandstone ashlar with plinth. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays and right coach house extension of 2 lower storeys and one bay. Rusticated quoins to central 3 bays; 4-panel double doors in outer bays with overlight at right; central 3 bays project slightly and have central round-headed window flanked by windows in plain reveals; 5 windows on first floor and 4 on second; all windows sashes with glazing bars of late C19 type and voussoirs. First floor band; dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped roof has central chimney with canted corners. One-bay, 2-storey right extension with panelled impost band to blocked segmental arch, has inserted ground floor sash and first floor sash in recessed panel; first floor sill string. Parapet to hipped roof with central banded chimney.

Listing NGR: NZ2482671290