Notice Board..............................1
Roddam Rigg............................ 1
Large houses............................. 2
Sustainable Transport.............. 2
Chapel Lane.............................. 3
Barnyards Walk.........................4
Ravenslaw listing decision...... 4
News in brief.............................5
Picture quiz............................... 5
County Council Property........6
Conservation and heritage
budgets.......................................6
Planning matters...................... 7
20mph limit............................... 7
About Alnwick Civic Society..8
Who's Who?.............................. 8
Diary dates................................ 8
Quiz answers.............................8
Old debts................................... 8
Alnbank by Barbara Woodhouse
This Grade II listed property is described in the official listing available on the English
Heritage site as follows: “Approached by a drive. Early-mid C19. Two storeys and 3
windows to south. Ashlar built with side piers. Paired cut brackets to eaves, double
pitched hipped slate roof. Moulded plinth course. Glazing bar sash windows. Entrance
on east side recessed and flanked by piers and with moulded entablature on corner
piers. Three windows on this front and a smart rubblework 2 window extension. The
interior has a fine fireplace and several rich mouldings. A late C19th conservatory to
west”
Historic England listing: Alnbank House
Used as billet for officers of 3/7 Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers while training in Alnwick
Keys to the past: Alnbank House
Luke Hindmarsh (1802-1877), timber and leather merchant. He built Alnbank House