Bishop'S House

NZ 16 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE WEST ROAD (north side) 7/559 No. 800 (Bishop's House) (Formerly listed as East 14.6.54 Denton Hall) I House; R.C. Bishop's residence and offices since 1942. Dated 1622 for Anthony and Dorothy Errington on door lintel inscribed 16 AED22. Rubble sandstone with large irregular quoins and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof; porch roof pantiled with stone slates at eaves; flat stone gable copings; coursed squared sandstone upper courses to rubble chimneys. U-plan. 3 storeys and attics, 4 bays, outer bays gabled. Porch at right of 3rd bay: Renewed round-arched door in raised panel with key and impost blocks and cornice; shaped gable, with 5 ball finials; date 1622 inscribed in gable peak. Double-chamfered stone-mullioned 4-light windows under continuous hood moulds, with relieving arches on ground floor; and 2-light windows in gable peaks. Single light at left of second bay on first floor; C19 bay window inserted on ground floor left. One external chimney stack at left return, one at rear and 2 on right return; 2 ridge stacks; double-span roof over left rear wing. Interior shows closed-well stairs; narrower stair in right wing; inserted chapel and large circa 1900 chimney piece in main ground floor-room: stepped ogee chamfer-stops on flat Tudor-arched door surrounds to stair and to servants wing from top floor, possibly long gallery. Carved stone chimney piece in principal first floor room; C18 doors, 5-panelled in principal rooms, 2-panelled elsewhere and boarded in servants wing; C18 chimney pieces in bedrooms; Panelled window shutters above boarding to lower section. Egg-and-dart dentilled and guilloche mouldings to first floor ceilings. Roof of collared coupled rafters with overlapping purlins. Historical note: in 1758 the house was inherited by Edward Montague, whose wife Elizabeth, the famous letter-writer, visited it annually. Source M. Hope Dodds History of Northumberland vol. XIII 1930 pp. 185-200; W.W. Tomlinson Denton Hall and its Associations 1893.

Listing NGR: NZ1987065677