Gosforth House, Now Brandling House, Part Of High Gosforth Park Club

NZ 27 SW NORTH GOSFORTH B1318 (east side) Gosforth Park 4/53 27 August 1952 Gosforth House, now Brandling House, part of High Gosforth Park Club. G.V. II* Country house, now part of club and grandstand. 1755-64 by James Paine for Charles and Elizabeth Brandling. 1881 conversion to racecourse club and grandstand for High Gosforth Park Co. Ltd. 1921 restoration. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; felt-covered graduated slate roof. 3 storeys, 7 bays and one-storey links to wings. Palladian style with rusticated ground storey. Central 3 bays, projecting slightly under open pediment, contain 3 glazed C20 doors with overlights; doors also in flanking bays. Set- back outer bays contain sashes. Central and end first floor windows with chambranle architraves, blind balustrades and segmental pediments, the central one bracketed. Plain reveals to intermediate and to all second floor windows; all sashes with glazing bars. Dentilled eaves cornice and pediment; central floating cornice. One-storey extruded links, with rainwater heads dated 1867, have plinths, sash windows, mostly blocked, eaves band and blocking course; C20 century doors inserted in left link. 5-bay south front: on ground floor, arched niches alternate with blocked openings; on piano nobile, 5 windows with aedicule treatment under pediments, the outer segmental and the central round. Source: Paine Plans and Elevations 1767 Vol. I p. 15: E. Mackenzie, View of Northumberland 2nd. ed. Newcastle 1825, p.471.

Listing NGR: NZ2485171251