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Bessie Surtees House
41-44 Sandhill
Newcastle
Newcastle
NE1 3JF
Tyne & Wear
England
Contact details
General information (Tel)
:
0191 269 1200
Website
:
www.english-heritage.org.uk
Open
Open all year: 10am - 4pm Mon - Fri except Bank Holidays
Closed
Closed: 24 Dec - 1 Jan 2004 and Bank Holidays
Discounts
English Heritage
Description
Two sixteenth- and seventeenth-century merchants’ houses, one of which is a rare example of Jacobean domestic architecture. The house is perhaps best known as the scene of the elopement of Bessie Surtees and John Scott, who, in 1771, became Lord Chancellor of England.
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