Jesmond Dene House

Jesmond Dene House is a house dating from 1822, originally designed by John Dobson for T.E. Headlam. It was subsequently extended and altered, with a large porch dated 1897 added by F.W. Rich for Sir Andrew Noble. The house is constructed of rock-faced sandstone with chiselled margins and ashlar dressings. The left range has an upper timber frame with pebble-dash render infill. The roofs are tiled with roll-moulded gable copings.

The building has an irregular plan and is Tudor style, standing two storeys and attics with five bays. The main entrance is through a recessed, boarded door within an open-arched, battlemented, two-storey porch, featuring a coat of arms and the date 1897 carved into arts-and-crafts-style panels under a ground floor corbel-table. The ground floor windows are double-chamfered stone-mullioned, with some transomed, and include a bracketed wood oriel in the timber-framed section. A glazed porch is located to the right. The roofs are varied, with hipped dormers to the steeply-pitched double-span right section.

The interior reflects a late 19th century wealthy owner's house, with an eclectic and rich design. Notable features include Frosterley marble fenders, William de Morgan tiles to the sitting-room fireplace, and a Great Hall featuring elaborate Jacobean panelling and carving to the chimney piece, with a small adjacent staircase set within a large alcove and screened passage and gallery above. The roof has multi-moulded beams and joists with corbelled arch trusses and central bosses.