Jesmond Dene House
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Jesmond Dene House is a 19th century mansion house at Jesmond Dene
, Newcastle upon Tyne
, England
which is now a hotel. It is a Grade II listed building.
The house was built in 1822 to designs by architect John Dobson
at Jesmond Dene
for Thomas Emerson Headlam, a physician and Mayor of Newcastle in 1837 and 1845. In about 1857 Lord Armstrong
, a wealthy industrialist, bought the property. He landscaped and developed the adjacent Jesmond Dene valley into a woodland park and garden
Armstrong moved to live at Cragside
and in 1871 sold the house to his business partner Andrew Noble and in 1883 donated the adjoining Jesmond Dene to the City of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Noble carried out extensive alterations and extensions to the house in 1897, with the assistance of architect FW Rich, including a new west wing, a great hall and a Gothic
-style porch
Following the death of Noble's widow in 1927 the house was put to various uses, including a college, a civil defence establishment, a seminary and a residential school, before becoming a hotel following its restoration and refurbishment in 2005.
Jesmond Dene
Jesmond Dene is a public park in the east end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It occupies the narrow steep-sided valley of a small stream known as the Ouseburn: in North-east England, such valleys are commonly known as denes....
, Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
which is now a hotel. It is a Grade II listed building.
The house was built in 1822 to designs by architect John Dobson
John Dobson (architect)
John Dobson was a 19th-century English architect in the neoclassical tradition. He became the most noted architect in the North of England. Churches and houses by him dot the North East - Nunnykirk Hall, Meldon Park, Mitford Hall, Lilburn Tower, St John the Baptist Church in Otterburn,...
at Jesmond Dene
Jesmond Dene
Jesmond Dene is a public park in the east end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It occupies the narrow steep-sided valley of a small stream known as the Ouseburn: in North-east England, such valleys are commonly known as denes....
for Thomas Emerson Headlam, a physician and Mayor of Newcastle in 1837 and 1845. In about 1857 Lord Armstrong
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong CB, FRS was an effective Tyneside industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire.-Early life:...
, a wealthy industrialist, bought the property. He landscaped and developed the adjacent Jesmond Dene valley into a woodland park and garden
Armstrong moved to live at Cragside
Cragside
Cragside is a country house in the civil parish of Cartington in Northumberland, England. It was the first house in the world to be lit using hydroelectric power...
and in 1871 sold the house to his business partner Andrew Noble and in 1883 donated the adjoining Jesmond Dene to the City of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Noble carried out extensive alterations and extensions to the house in 1897, with the assistance of architect FW Rich, including a new west wing, a great hall and a Gothic
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
-style porch
Following the death of Noble's widow in 1927 the house was put to various uses, including a college, a civil defence establishment, a seminary and a residential school, before becoming a hotel following its restoration and refurbishment in 2005.