Glanton House
GLANTON HOUSE, THE CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041982
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Glanton House
- Statutory Address:
- GLANTON HOUSE, THE CAUSEWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041982
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Glanton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLANTON HOUSE, THE CAUSEWAY
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:
- GLANTON HOUSE, THE CAUSEWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Glanton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 07225 14466
Details
GLANTON THE CAUSEWAY NU 0714 (South side) 21/191 Glanton House 10.1.53 GV II
House, mid-C18 (described as new-built in 1763/4). Squared stone with ashlar dressings; purple Scottish slates to front roof slope of main range, Welsh slates to remainder except for C20 synthetic purple slates on rear slope of west wing. L-plan.
South elevation 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Chamfered plinth, rusticated quoins. Central half-glazed door in renewed lugged architrave with pulvinated frieze and pediment, 12-pane sash windows in architraves with moulded sills. Moulded eaves cornice and steeply-pitched roof with coped gables on moulded kneelers, and stepped-and-corniced end stacks. Right return shows lst floor sash and 8-pane attic sash in raised stone surrounds. 4-bay left return shows similar detail; right bay has windows blocked except for 8-pane attic sash. West wing, to left, has C18 sashes with thick glazing bars to 1st floor and ground floor left; 2 ground-floor sashes renewed, that to right in new architrave in place of former doorway, (now removed to west wing outshut). Stepped-and-corniced left end stack, smaller ridge stack. Rear elevation: contemporary outshut to main range shows 15-pane fixed casement stair window in raised stone surround with narrow chamfer; gable end of west wing shows renewed 8-pane attic sash in stone surround.
Interior: Fielded-panel doors, some on L hinges; folding panelled shutters. Dining room has panelled dado, dentil cornice, and late C18 fireplace; drawing room has panelling on south wall; kitchen has chamfered fireplace with shallow segmental arch retaining old smoke jack and spit. Dog-leg closed-string stair with column-on-vase balusters, moulded wreathed and ramped handrail, moulded newels and curtail step. Bedroom fireplaces have enriched wood surrounds and old ironwork. Original collar-beam truss roofs, 7-bay over main block and 5-bay over wing; trusses have elbowed uprights rising from inner wallface and halved into feet of principal rafters; 2 levels of purlins and diagonally- set ridge; carpenter's numbering on all trusses.
Listing NGR: NU0722514466
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236534
- 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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