Wallington Hall
WALLINGTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1042869
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wallington Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WALLINGTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1042869
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wallington Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLINGTON 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:
- WALLINGTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wallington Demesne
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 02880 84191
Details
WALLINGTON DEMESNE WALLINGTON HALL NZ 0284 21/220 Wallington Hall 6.5.52 GV I Country House built on site of earlier Fenwick house in 1688, for Sir William Blackett; remodelled 1735-45, probably by Daniel Garrett, for Sir William Calverley Blackett. Further alterations 1853-4 by John Dobson, on advice of Ruskin. Tooled-and-margined stone, with dressings; slate roofs. Square plan with ranges around courtyard, roofed over and converted into Central Hall in 1853 & 4;two small service wings to north. Classical style with little external enrichment.
South front 2 storeys, 3+3+3 bays, symmetrical. Rusticated end quoins, bands at lst floor and below eaves. Central slightly-projecting pedimented section has French window in eared architrave under consoles carrying broken pediment with Trevelyan arms, and flanked by 8-pane sashes; 18-pane sashes to 1st floor. Flanking sections have 18-pane dashes with 15-pane sashes above and eaves cornice. All windows in architraves set in shallow projections running the full height of the wall. Top entablature has flattened ball finials with spikes on swept bases flanking pediment and at ends of facade. Hipped roof.
East front 2+3+1+3+2 bays; plainer detail, central Tuscan porch. To far right a 1-storey service wing with firebell in wooden bellcote on ridge.
Interior; notable mid-C18 plasterwork by Pietro Francini, especially in the Saloon; also important contemporary woodwork. Simple but elegant Imperial stair. Arcaded Central Hall has Pre-Raphaelite mural paintings by William Bell Scott, and one panel by John Ruskin.
See articles by John Cornforth in Country Life MCLVII 854-8, 922-6, 986-9.
Listing NGR: NZ0288084191
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 1157, (), 854-8
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 1157, (), 922-6
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 1157, (), 986-9
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.
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