Bessie Surtees House

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Admission:	Free
Street:	41-44 Sandhill
Town:	Newcastle
County:	Tyne & Wear
Postcode:	NE1 3JF
Telephone:	0191 269 1200
Website:	http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.13415
Opening Days:	Weekdays
Opening Periods:	All year

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Description:

These two five-storey 16th and 17th-century merchants' houses - which now also house English Heritage's regional office - are fine examples of Jacobean domestic architecture, with some splendid period interiors. The Surtees house is best known as the scene of the elopement of Bessie with John Scott, later Lord Chancellor of England. An exhibition illustrating the history of the houses is on the first floor.

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