Northumberland County Council

Listed building outline: Addycombe Cottages With Attached Walls And Outbuildings 1041930

Legend

• Northumberland County Council boundary
• Listed building outlines

Addycombe Cottages With Attached Walls And Outbuildings 1041930

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.908615 55.311564,-1.908654 55.311563,-1.908653...
• entry-date: 2013-08-19
• listed-building: 1041930
• name: Addycombe Cottages With Attached Walls And Outbuildings
• notes: ROTHBURY ADDYCOMBE GARDENS NU 0501 25/259 Addycombe Cottages (Nos. 1-12 26.3.73 consecutive) with attached rear walls and outbuildings (formerly listed as pact of Nos 1-22 Addycombe Cottages) II Terrace of houses 1873 by Norman Shaw for Lord Armstrong, restored and rear walls reduced in height 1978 by Spence & Price of Newcastle. Rubble with rock- faced and margined dressings; porches and gables of end houses half-timbered with pebbledash over brick infill; red clay tile roofs with ornamental terracotta ridges and finials, purple slates on rear outbuildings. 6 houses, divided from the first into flats, those on 1st floor entered from external staircases at rear. Domestic Revival style. Front elevation; stepped up slope; 2 storeys except for end houses 2 storeys + attic; each house 2 bays. Each has central porch, timber-framed on stone base, with 9-pane fixed casement and vertical-panelled door, on left return, in ogee-arched surround under gablet with projecting bargeboards. 2-, 3- and 4-light mullioned-and-transomed windows holding plain casements; lst-floor windows in intermediate houses in gabled half dormers: end houses have broad timber-framed attic gables, the upper parts set forward on moulded corbels, each with a 3-light small-paned casement window; plain bargeboards. Coped intermediate gables, end and ridge stacks with battered faces. Returns each show broad gable with attic slit and pent projection below; intermediate houses have projecting gabled wings, both with attached outhouses showing asymmetric-pitched roofs. East end house has broad gable above late C20 rear wing in same style. External stone stairs to balconies and upper flat doors in wings. Attached yard walls with re-set arched coping. Built as cottages for retiring staff of the Armstrong household. ,
• reference: 1041930
• start-date: 1973-03-26