Charlton Hall
CHARLTON HALL, A1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042002
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Charlton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CHARLTON HALL, A1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042002
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Charlton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARLTON HALL, A1
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:
- CHARLTON HALL, A1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eglingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 17898 22373
Details
EGLINGHAM AI NU 12 SE (East side, off) 3/143 Charlton Hall GV II*
Country house. Late C18, perhaps by William Newton. Tooled-and-margined stone; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Plinth, sill bands, rusticated quoins and modillion eaves cornice. Panelled piers flank 5-step approach to central old half-glazed door with 2-pane fanlight in raised surround with keyed round arch, flanking 6-pane sashes and open pediment. 4 outer windows are longer 12-pane sashes, breaking sill band. 6-pane sashes to 1st floor, that above door flanked by narrow 2-pane sashes; all windows in architraves. Hipped roof with 2 ridge stacks, stepped-and-corniced with panelled shafts. 4-bay returns with similar fenestration; plainer 3-bay kitchen wing to rear left. Venetian stair window to rear, with radial head.
Interior: Venetian screen from entrance lobby to hall has archivolt key block carved with convolvulus flowers. Dining room with fluted frieze, drawing room with urn-and-anthemion frieze, library with palmette frieze; all rooms have fielded-panel doors with overdoors matching the friezes, moulded cornices and marble fireplaces with contemporary ironwork. Dog-leg stair with 2 stick balusters per tread, moulded ramped and wreathed handrail, moulded newel, curtail step and carved tread ends. Stair window with Ionic columns and foliage frieze; Rococo ceiling rose above. Stairhead has segmental arch to lobby above entrance. Bedrooms have fielded-panel doors, marble fireplaces and moulded cornices.
An unusually complete and unaltered late Georgian interior.
Listing NGR: NU1789822373
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236484
- 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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