Harnham Hall
HARNHAM HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042818
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Harnham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HARNHAM HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042818
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Harnham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARNHAM 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.
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:
- HARNHAM HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Belsay
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 07378 80474
Details
BELSAY HARNHAM NZ 08 SE
4/61 Harnham Hall 27.8.52
GV II*
House. Probably C16 or early C17, altered late C17 and refenestrated C18. Random rubble, pebbledashed on front; stone slate roof.
Probably originally a hearth-passage plan, altered in later C17 to central staircase plan with downhouse. Tower attached to rear.
2 storeys, 4 windows. To left a late C16 or early C17 doorway with Tudor-arched surround and multi-moulded floating cornice. Later C17 central doorway has Tudor-arched lintel, broad chamfered surround and hoodmould with small nailhead decoration. 12-pane sash windows in raised surrounds. (Vestiges of mullioned windows in quite different positions said to be visible beneath pebbledash). Steeply-pitched gabled roof with flat coping and kneelers; corniced ridge stack to right of earlier doorway. Similar external end stacks.
The tower to rear is built daringly, directly over edge of cliff. It is said to be medieval but the walls are only c. 2 ft. thick and it appears to have no features earlier than C17. Vaulted basement with 2 storeys over. On the ground floor a 3-light mullioned window with multi-moulded cornice. On 1st floor a blocked mullioned-and-transomed cross window with similar cornice and a 12-pane sash in similar surround. Plain parapet with higher turret in north-east corner.
Interior: Open-well early C18 staircase has turned balusters with square knops and clustered shafts at the newels. In the drawing room a large high-relief plaster roundel with a dragon in a circle of oak leaves; this is the crest of the Babingtons who owned the house from c.1660-1677; also large C17 fireplace with segmental lintel, into which an early C18 stone fireplace with pulvinated frieze has been set; flanking early C18 cupboards. 1st floor room in tower has a fine early C18 corner cupboard with arched panels, scrolled pedimented top and shaped shelves. Many 2-panel doors.
Hodgson. History of Northumberland Vol. 1 part 2.
Listing NGR: NZ0737880474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238547
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hodgson, J, A History of Northumberland in A History of Northumberland Part 2, Vol. 1, (1832)
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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