Gosforth, High Street, The County Hotel

HER Number:
9034

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Gosforth, High Street, The County Hotel

Place:
Gosforth

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Public house. Mid C19. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 and 3 bays. Main 3-bay section has blocked central door in architrave with bracketed dentilled cornice; inserted window has projecting stone sill. Ground floor paired sashes have bracketed sills; first floor sashes with late C19 glazing bars in lugged architraves. 2 bays set back slightly at left have 2 narrow and one wide ground-floor windows with impost string and keyed segmental arches; bracketed sills and architraves to first floor sashes. All ground floor windows have c.1900 stained glass. First floor band, eaves band and gutter cornice. Low-pitched roof has ashlar chimneys with plinths and cornices. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2440

Northing:
6773

Grid Reference:
NZ24406773

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 8/20; Bennison, Brian, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 9