Acton Hall
ACTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041870
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Acton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ACTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041870
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Acton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ACTON 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:
- ACTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Felton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 18508 02426
Details
FELTON ACTON NU 10 SE 6/93 Acton Hall 31/12/69 GV II
House. Main block c.1730 incorporating C17 or earlier fabric; extended to east in early C19. Squared stone except for earlier rubble fabric in west wall; cut dressings; Welsh slate roof. Double-span main block with extension to east of front part.
South elevation in two sections. Left part 2 storeys + attics, 2 + 1 + 2 bays. Four steps, flanked by low walls carrying terracotta urns, up to central C19 half-glazed door, with patterned glass, in bolection-moulded surround, the moulding arched over a lintel panel with coat of arms; flanking moulded brackets but no cornice. Sash windows in moulded surrounds. Ground- floor openings have segmental floating pediments above. Coped gables on moulded kneelers. Two flat-topped roof dormers with paired 8-pane casements. Stepped-and-corniced end stacks, that to left rendered. 3-bay right part shows sashes, coped gable on moulded kneelers and stepped-and-corniced right end stack. Twin-gabled left return shows masonry of several different periods: right projecting stepped chimney breast and outline of gable end of earlier house; left 2 small chamfered windows and one with timber lintel. Rear elevation shows several windows, with C19 fancy leaded glazing, and 2 round-arched stair windows.
Interior: Dining Room and Morning Room have enriched cornices; rear passage has 2 panelled archways with imposts and keyblocks. Dog-leg open-string stair with turned vase-on-urn balusters, similar newels, ramped and moulded grip handrail and curtail step. Front block has 2-panel bedroom doors in corniced surrounds, and 7-bay roof with pegged collar-beam trusses showing carpenters numbers I, II, (III), 4, V and VI.
Note: the front elevation of the main block is almost identical to that of Elyhaugh (q,v.), also in Felton parish, which is dated 1732.
Listing NGR: NU1850802426
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236762
- 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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