Hethpool House

HETHPOOL HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042321
Date first listed:
14-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Hethpool House
Statutory Address:
HETHPOOL HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042321
Date first listed:
14-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Hethpool House
Statutory Address 1:
HETHPOOL 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HETHPOOL HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kirknewton
National Park:
Northumberland
National Grid Reference:
NT 89606 28391

Details

NT 82 NE KIRKNEWTON HETHPOOL

6/84 Hethpool House

GV II

House. 1919, dated on roundel in rear porch gable, by Cahill of Alnwick, on site of, and incorporating some masonry from, a house built in 1687. Additions of 1928 by Robert Mauchlin of Newcastle, for Sir Arthur Munro Sutherland. Roughcast with ashlar dressings and Devonian slate roof. Arts-and-Crafts style. 2 storeys; double-span roof with projecting wing to rear and later round tower attached on right.

Original building 6 bays. Doorway in 2nd bay: glazed door in large gabled porch with round-arched entry and sundial in gable. 12-pane sash windows in raised surrounds. To left a high projecting round tower with similar windows, shield with Sutherland coat of arms and conical roof. A second lower rounded projection adjoins left side of this tower and has a conical pent roof. Similar decoration to rear and, in rear wing, a doorway with moulded surround and lintel dated 1687.

Interior: contemporary restrained Arts-and-Crafts style with massive rough beams, early-C18 style fireplaces and staircase with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: NT8960628391

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
237660
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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