Nunnykirk Hall
NUNNYKIRK HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1041251
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nunnykirk Hall
- Statutory Address:
- NUNNYKIRK HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1041251
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nunnykirk Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUNNYKIRK HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUNNYKIRK HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nunnykirk
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 08096 92626
Details
NUNNYKIRK NUNNYKIRK NZ 09 SE 13/54 Nunnykirk Hall
I
Country house, now a school. 1825 by John Dobson for William Orde. Ashlar with Lakeland slate roof. Greek Revival style.
Entrance front: 2 storeys, 5 broad bays. Centre and outer bays break forward slightly. In centre bay a large Ionic porte-cochere, with 2 columns in antis, set against a loggia of 3 pairs of Ionic columns which spans centre 3 bays. Whole front has banded rustication which breaks to form voussoirs over ground floor openings. 12- and 6-pane sashes. Cornice and parapet with panels carved with scrolls, palmettes and anthemia. Hipped roof.
Large L-plan, 3-storey, 6-bay service wing to right has 30-pane sashes on ground and 1st floor, 16-pane sashes above.
Garden front: 3-storey, 6-bay centre with projecting 2-storey one-bay wings. The centre has similar banded rustication which is echoed in the angle pilasters of the wings. Single-storey loggia of 4 Ionic columns in antis. Full-length 12-pane sashes on ground floor. Wood cross windows on 1st floor and 6-pane sashes above. 2nd floor sill string, palmette frieze, dentil cornice and panelled parapet with scrolls. Projecting wings have full-length tripartite windows on ground floor and shorter tripartite windows above. Parapets with scrolls and palmettes.
On south front a large 2-storey, 3-bay bow window.
Interior: Central hall has coffered dome with glazed drum,rosettes in the panels; at each end coffered segmental vaults with scrolled edges, frieze of alternating palmettes and anthemia; stone balcony with cast-iron balustrade which has lion masks and palmette frieze. Staircase, with similar balustrade, is semicircular around screen of 2 Corinthian columns; frieze with Greek figures. Drawing room has reticulated ceiling with flowers at intersections, scrolled border and Greek key frieze; white marble fireplace with high relief eagle and snake in lintel; large gilded pelmet with an eagle. Dining room has coffered ceiling, each panel in frame of palmettes, frieze with palmettes and cornucopia. Library shelves have Corinthian colonettes and enriched cyma- moulded cornice. Excellent woodwork throughout principal rooms with doors and shutters veneered in a variety of native and foreign woods.
Country Life: Feb. 17th 1966.
Listing NGR: NZ0809692626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236295
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 17 February, (1966)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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