Fallodon Hall
FALLODON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041743
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fallodon Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FALLODON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041743
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fallodon Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FALLODON 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:
- FALLODON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton-by-the-Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 20594 23600
Details
NU 22 SW NEWTON-BY-THE-SEA FALLODON
3/172 Fallodon Hall
GV II
Country house. Early C18 for Thomas Wood; service wing extended to rear in later C18; early C19 rear wing by John Dobson; remodelling and removal of main block 2nd floor c.1920 by Reavell and Cahill of Alnwick, following a severe fire. Main part brick in English Garden Wall bond 1 & 3, with sandstone ashlar dressings; rear-wing squared stone; return and rear elevation of service wing squared rubble. Graduated Lakeland slate roofs, except for Welsh slates on rear parts of service wing. Plan: 7 x 3 bay main block with single-storey entrance lobby extension on north; central rear wing with double-span service wing on north.
West front. Main block 2 storeys, 3 + 1 + 3 bays, symmetrical. Rusticated quoins, chamfered plinth and 1st floor band. Slightly-projecting centre has glazed double doors, in round arch with imposts and keystone, in surround with attached columns, metope frieze and cornice. 12-pane sash windows in stone surrounds with stepped segmental heads, triple keystones and projecting moulded sills. Moulded string below parapet with moulded coping. Hipped roof; panelled stepped-and-banded stacks at left end and on ridge. Set forward to left is single-storey entrance lobby of c. 1920 with 12-pane sash in keyed architrave. Set back to far left is 2-storey 4-bay service wing; rusticated quoins; half-glazed door in stone surround with C19 corbelled-out canted bay to left and paired 12-pane sashes to right; 4-pane casements in early C18 recessed and chamfered surrounds above. Roof hipped to left; 2 stepped-and- corniced old brick lateral stacks on left return.
North (entrance) front: Main block shows two 12-pane 1st-floor sashes in surrounds, as on west front, and rainwater head dated 1796 with initials C.G. (Sir Charles Grey) above flat-roofed single-storey extension. This has 3 12-pane sashes in keyed architraves; to right a projection with flush-panelled door in eared architrave within pedimented porch with banded piers and metope frieze.
South front of main block shows central 3-window bow with glazed double doors and radial overlight; fenestration as on south front, except that windows in bow are square-headed.
Rear (east) elevation: Basement to centre and right. Set back to left are 2 bays similar to front, and another 1796 rainwater head. Central 3-bay projecting wing with 12-pane sashes; hipped roof with early C20 flat-topped dormers. Right 3-bay rear part of service wing.
Interior c.1920, except for service wing; early C18 front part has 2-panel doors, some on L hinges, and old close-spaced transverse ceiling beams.
Former kitchen in rear parts has three chamfered segmental-arched fireplaces, partly blocked.
Historical Note. Since the mid C18 the seat of a branch of the Grey family, several of whom were prominent nationally. Earl Grey (1767-1828) was famous for the Reform Bill; Sir Edward Grey (1862-1933), 'Grey of Fallodon' was Foreign Secretary.
Listing NGR: NU2059423600
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237063
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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