Pallinsburn
PALLINSBURN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042162
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Pallinsburn
- Statutory Address:
- PALLINSBURN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042162
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Pallinsburn
- Statutory Address 1:
- PALLINSBURN
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:
- PALLINSBURN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 89786 39024
Details
FORD PALLINSBURN NT 83 NE 9/121 Pallinsburn 21.9.51 GV II*
Country house. Late C18 or early C19, extended mid C19. The main block remodelled 1912 for Charles Mitchell. Top storey removed and house redecorated internally c.1933. Brick in Flemish bond, much of the brick old and said to be Dutch. Wings have Scottish slate roofs, the main block a flat concrete roof, hidden behind parapets. Jacobean style. 2 storeys. Slightly irregular 7-bay centre with projecting 2-storey, 6-bay wings.
Centre block: upper floor set back. 2-bay loggias left and right with Tuscan columns. Central round-headed doorway with 3-light mullioned overlight, set in moulded alternating-block surround. 6-light mullioned-and-transomed window to right, 2 cross windows to left. On 1st floor a large central canted bay window with 2 transoms. 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows with segmental pediments. Balustraded parapets to ground and 1st floor. Tall corniced stacks. Wings have 12-pane sashes in architraves.
Hipped roofs.
Interior: Dining room has barrel-vaulted Tudor-style plaster ceiling with intersecting ribs framing panels with reliefs of wild animals. Re-used Jacobean panelling with Ionic pilasters and frieze with strapwork. Re-used C17 fireplace with moulded surround and jewel stops; above a plaster inscription BELLO CONTRA TEUTONES FINIT CAROLVS MITCHELL ATQUE UXOR ETUS SPES RIVVLO PAVLINI RURSUS ACCESSERVENT. Oak room has re-used C16 panelling, partly linenfold and partly medallion heads. Plaster ceiling. Library has ceiling with curved ribs forming ogee-headed panels bearing thistles; a frieze in Baroque style with cherubs and festoons. Hall has screen of 3 Tuscan columns with acanthus necking. Octagon room, fireplace by Bossi; re-used early C18 niche and panelling. Much more similar decoration.
Listing NGR: NT8978639024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238088
- 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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