Birney Hill Hall

BIRNEY HILL HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042707
Date first listed:
22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Birney Hill Hall
Statutory Address:
BIRNEY HILL HALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042707
Date first listed:
22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Birney Hill Hall
Statutory Address 1:
BIRNEY HILL HALL

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:
BIRNEY HILL HALL

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ponteland
National Grid Reference:
NZ 14938 69953

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/01/2015:
Birney Hill Hall
(Formerly listed as Birney Hall)

PONTELAND BIRNEY HALL
NZ 16 NW
20/288

GV II


House. C17 or early C18 (reset datestone of 1701 with initials R & ME
possibly for Errington, above centre bay); altered and extended 1907. Ashlar
with Welsh slate roof. Tudor style. Original double-span building to left 2½
storeys, 3 bays. Openings mainly of 1907. Central canted 2-storey bay has
Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould. 5-light mullioned window over. Flanking
4-light mullioned-and-tansomed windows on ground floor, 3-light above. 3 tall
original gabled dormers have diamond-paned casements with wedge lintels grooved
in imitation of voussoirs. Steeply-pitched gabled roof with C18 kneelers,
flat coping and corniced end stacks.

2-bay extension to right'of 1907 in similar style.

Rear span has C18 masonry, but detail of 1907 in Arts and Crafts style. Large
2-storey wood bow window and projecting wing on left with 3 attached Tuscan
columns supporting jettied first floor.

Good interior of 1907.


Listing NGR: NZ1493869953

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
238780
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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