Horncliffe House
HORNCLIFFE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042252
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Horncliffe House
- Statutory Address:
- HORNCLIFFE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042252
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Horncliffe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORNCLIFFE HOUSE
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:
- HORNCLIFFE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Horncliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NT9334350326
Details
NT 95 SW
1/57
22.12.69
HORNCLIFFE
HORNCLIFFE
Horncliffe House
GV
II*
Country House. c.1800 for William Alder. Porch added mid C19. Ashlar with
Welsh and Scottish slate roofs. Palladian style. Central 3-storey main block
with single-storey concave linking wings to end pavilions.
Centre block 2 : 3 : 2 bays, the centre 3 bays pedimented and breaking forward
slightly. Pedimented porch with panelled door and fanlight in broad, hollow-
chamfered surround. The porch has rounded, rusticated corners. The centre
section has 12-pane sashes flanked by narrow 8-pane sashes on ground and 1st
floor, 9- and 6-pane sashes on 2nd floor. Outer bays have 12-pane sashes and
9-pane sashes on 2nd floor. Eaves cornice. Hipped roof with 2 tall, corniced
ridge stacks.
5-bay concave linking wings with round-headed arches, square piers, archivolts
and full-length glazing with radiating glazing bars. Arcade to right has
conservatory behind.
End pavilions have Venetian windows in round-arched recesses; hipped roofs
with 2 corniced ridge stacks.
To rear centre block has 3-storey, 3-bay bow window. Linking 5-bay wings have
keyed round-headed windows. Pavilions have Venetian windows.
Interior: Oval geometric stair with wrought-iron balusters and boldly wreathed
and moulded handrail. Many plaster friezes, with acanthus scrolls and other
foliage. Modillion cornice in entrance hall. In Morning Room a pine fireplace
with gesso decoration of entwined roses and thistles, also seaweed and shells
and sheaves of corn. Drawing room has white and coloured marble fireplace
with Ionic pilasters. The conservatory has mid-Victorian iron work and a
niche with terracotta colonettes and the crestof Sir Hubert Jerningham who
lived here in the late 1860s.
Source: North Durham : Raine J. : London 1852.
Listing NGR: NT9334350326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237910
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raine, J, North Durham, (1852)
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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