Jesmond Dene House is a Grade II listed 19th‑century mansion in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, now operating as an independently owned 40‑bedroom luxury hotel overlooking the landscaped valley of Jesmond Dene.
 
The mansion was previously home to Sir Andrew Noble, a key partner of Lord William Armstrong, whose fortune came from a combination of shipping, armaments and heavy engineering – giving them a reputation as the industrial “oligarchs” of late Victorian Tyneside.
 
Guests to Jesmond Dene in Noble’s time reportedly included Rudyard Kipling and Robert Baden‑Powell, underlining the house’s ties to imperial culture and the emerging scouting movement.
 
Interesting facts...
During the Second World War the house served as an Air Raid Precautions (ARP) headquarters, with a network of tunnels attached to the building, including one entrance from inside the house and three more emerging at the foot of the cliff below. The tunnels still exist but have been sealed, leaving interesting urban myths about them