BLAGDON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1042662
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: BLAGDON HALL
Statutory Address:: BLAGDON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1042662
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: BLAGDON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BLAGDON HALL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BLAGDON HALL

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stannington
National Grid Reference:: NZ 21567 77043

Details

STANNINGTON BLAGDON NZ 2177 13/59 Blagdon Hall 27.8.52 GV I Country House. 1730-1752 for Sir Matthew White, incorporating a little of an earlier house; east front built first, a second phase of work including the south front and the addition of the 2nd floor completed by 1752 (south front rainwater heads, these by James Paine). Alterations 1778-1791 by James Wyatt for Sir Matthew White Ridley; north wing c.1820 partly by John Dobson. Other C19 parts removed, following 1944 fire, in 1948-1949 restoration by Robert Lutyens. Tooled ashlar; Lakeland slate roof.

Entrance (east) front: 3 storeys, 7 bays, grouped 2,3,2. Narrow proportions. Renewed sash windows with glazing bars in architraves, those on 1st floor with swell friezes and cornices, the centre pedimented. Plinth, 1st floor band, ground and 1st floor sill bands. Projecting 2nd-floor sills. Top moulded cornice and coped parapet. Traces of giant pilasters and 2nd floor cornice removed in 1782. Low-pitched hipped roof with 2 compound transverse stacks with modillion cornices, and another at right end. Large rainwater heads with monograms dated 1945. Central door in pedimented Corinthian doorcase a 1948/9 insertion. Set back to right, plainer 6-bay north wing with small-paned sashes.

South front similar but of wider proportions, with some elongated ground floor windows; friezes and cornices on ground floor. All 1st floor windows pedimented, with coat of arms and garlands. Set back to left 1-storey, 3-bay extension of c.1820.

Interior: ground-floor rooms largely late C18. Entrance hall: plaster cornice, doors with Greek Key pattern in reveals, with frieze and cornice over each. Wyatt Room: good plasterwork, screen with fluted columns and fireplace with chimneypiece panel. Drawing Room (former Saloon): deep moulded and modillioned cornice, mahogany doors with carved panels, elaborate overdoors with oak-leaf friezes; window shutters with egg-and-dart. Dining Room: carved marble fireplace, classical ornament and frieze with urns and palmette over doors. Library of 1928 by Robert Lutyens, with earlier carved chimneypiece. Stairhall mid-C18: Roman Doric screen at foot and Ionic screen at head of open-string Imperial stair with stick balusters and ramped moulded handrail; plasterwork includes deep modillion cornice, Rococo swag and ceiling rose, perhaps by the Italian stuccatori who worked at Wallington. One mid-C18 panelled bedroom with bolection- moulded fireplace (with ornate ironwork) and door architraves; enriched cornice, fielded panelling. North (nursery) wing with early C19 doorcases and cornices. Cellars with brick barrel vaults; one part, not seen, has C17 fireplace and walling from earlier house.

Country Life CXII 188, 260 - and 396 et seq.

Listing NGR: NZ2156777043

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 238975
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 18 August, , Vol. 62, (1952), 188
'Country Life' in 8 August, , Vol. 62, (1952), 260 396
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 31 Northumberland,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.