Heddon Hall

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

LITTLE HEDDON NZ 16 NW

20/145 Heddon Hall Heddon Hall

28.4.69 II

House. C18 extended early C19 and remodelled 1824 for I.M. Bates, C18 dressed stone on right, ashlar elsewhere. Welsh slate roof. Classical style. Two storeys, 5 bays. Former central doorway, now a window, has full-length 12-pane sash in Tuscan entablature. Flanking bays, including present door to left, have plain reveals and semicircular pediments on stone brackets. Four-pane sashes in plain reveals in outer bays. 12-pane sashes on 1st floor. Plain frieze, cornice and blocking course of 1824. Roof hipped on left with ridge and end stacks.

On left return a 2-storey square tower with 4-pane sash on ground floor; round- headed window on 1st floor has radiating glazing bars and dated keystone.

Interior: mainly of 1820-30. Hall has coffered ceiling and Greek-style fireplace with battered jambs, pedimented lintel with acroteria on the corners.

Drawing room has coffered ceiling with Greek-key design on the borders.

Imposing cantilevered open-well stair with ramped and wreathed handrail and hexagonal-plan balusters. 6-panel doors and shutters; many early C19 fireplaces.

Listing NGR: NZ1416266340

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0189 IOE Records taken by J H Black; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mrs J.H. Black. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project