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Fisherman's Lodge is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9959°, -1.5951°.

Historic houses · North East England

Fisherman's Lodge

Fisherman's Lodge in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Fisherman's Lodge is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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The Fisherman's Lodge, also known as Deep Dene House, is a mansion house at Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The house, which is now in a dilapidated condition, was one of several large houses built in Jesmond Dene in the mid-19th century.

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History

The house was commissioned by Lord Armstrong on his own land to provide accommodation for senior staff working at his company, W.G. Armstrong & Company, before they bought their own homes. Originally known as Heaton Cottage, it was built in stone and was completed in around 1850. It became the home of the Scottish physicist, Andrew Noble, in 1861 and was used as a venue to entertain local gentry such as John and Albany Hancock before Noble moved to a much larger property, Jesmond Dene House, in 1871. Lord Armstrong gifted Heaton Cottage to the City of Newcastle in 1883. His intention was that the income from the building and three other "endowment properties" in the area would be used to…

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