Jesmond Dene House

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Jesmond Dene House is a 19th century mansion house at Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne which is now occupied by an hotel. It is a Grade II listed building. ^[1]

The house was built in 1822 for TE Headlam to designs by architect John Dobson at Jesmond Dene^[1]. 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^[2]

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.^[2]

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^{[1] [3]}

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 in 2005 following restoration and refurbishment it was opened as an hotel.^[3]

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