Whiteknights

NZ 26 NW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BELLE GROVE WEST (south side) Spital Tongues.

8/90 Whiteknights (formerly listed 17.12.71 in Spital Tongues)

G.V. II

House. Mid C18, with late C19 alterations. Rendered front and left return, brick rear, with ashlar plinth; late C19 timber framing in gable. Lakeland slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, the centre 2 projecting under gable; the right one-bay wing is the left return of No. 3 Belle Grove Place (q.v.). Projecting 2 bays have door at left in corniced late C19 porch; canted bays in the left wing and at right of door; sash windows on first floor, those in centre bays longer, longest at right. Some windows blocked; late C19 glazing bars. Late C19 gable over centre has oriel and 2 oeuil-de-boeuf windows. Conservatory at right corner. Rendered ridge chimneys. Interior shows stair with ramped handrail on turned balusters, and ramped dado rail; plainer servants' stair with square balusters from top landing to attics. Original architraves; some 2-panelled doors on second floor and in attics. Ground floor left principal room is panelled and has high-quality rococo stucco ceiling and frieze with garlands; shell ornament to panel with guttae above door; glazed cupboard with astragals. Egg-and-dart and Greek key moulding on chimney. Right room and entrance hall have dentilled cornices. Stair ceiling has central leaf-and- rose roundel, moulded cornice. Historical note: documented to 1751: the house became a hospital in 1766, a private asylum in late C18 and early C19; known as St. Luke's Hospital and Belle Grove Retreat; originally called New House. Source: Mackenzie, History of Newcastle, Newcastle, 1827, 526.

Listing NGR: NZ2373865262