Gosforth House

Gosforth House

Gosforth House now known as Brandling House is a Grade II listed building built as a mansion house and now serving as a hospitality and conference centre at Gosforth Park Racecourse, Newcastle upon Tyne.

The Gosforth estate of about convert|2000|acre|km2 was owned from about 1509 by the Brandling family. The house was built between 1755 and 1764, to a design by architect Payne, by Charles Brandling who also laid out the park an a fifty acre lake.

Brandling suffered financial problems as a result of which he sold the estate in 1852 to Thomas Smith.

In 1880 the house was sold with convert|807|acre|km2|1 to High Gosforth Park Ltd a company formed to establish a racecourse on the estate.


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