Biddick Hall
BIDDICK HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120989
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Biddick Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BIDDICK HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120989
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Biddick Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIDDICK 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:
- BIDDICK HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 31453 52792
Details
BOURNMOOR LAMBTON PARK NZ 35 SW 5/9 Inset Biddick Hall 1/2/67 (previously included in the Civil Parish of South Biddick) GV I
Small country house. Early C18 incorporating an older structure; east bay added 1859 (dated rainwater-head); north wing and additions on rear of east bay 1954-5 by E.M. Lawson and Partners. Main block influenced by and possibly based on a sketch by Sir John Vanbrugh who worked at Lumley Castle (q.v.) in 1721. Light-red hand-made brick in Flemish bond with painted stone dressings; roofs not visible; stone chimneys. Matching later additions in stretcher bond. Main block double-pile plan with massive spine wall. Baroque style.
2-storey main block; symmetrical 5-bay entrance front with added east bay. Dressed stone plinth and raised quoins. Central replaced doors and 8-pane overlight in architrave with cornice hood on enriched consoles. Centre bay framed by giant fluted Ionic pilasters carrying pediment on entablature with pulvinated frieze. 12-pane sashes in architraves. 2 fluted lead rainwater heads with downcomers. Tall, panelled flat-coped parapet above band. Stone vases on parapet and pediment. Corniced ridge stacks. Set-back added bay. Similar 5-bay west return, without pilasters and pediment, has oeil-de-boeuf windows on both storeys of centre bay. Split-level, flat-roofed 1954 rear wing.
Interior of main block: Ground-floor west wall and spine wall c.1.5 metres thick. Narrow entrance hallway has barrel-vaulted ceiling and archway into staircase hall with Doric pilasters, archivolt and keystone. 2 rooms flanking lobby: on east with c.1880 Adam-style decoration and C18 chimneypiece by Henry Cheere; on west with C18 chimneypiece with rams' heads (Lambton insignia). Small bedroom behind west room with re-used C17 panelling and a corner chimneypiece. 2-storey staircase hall: 3-flight open-well cantilevered staircase with c.1780 wrought-iron balustrade and wreathed handrail; panelled dado with ramped rail; 4- and 6-panel doors in architraves; egg-and-dart cornice on ground floor; slightly-coved ceiling with arabesques, swags etc. (possibly c.1745 by La Francini); Venetian window 1960 by Trenwith Wells. 2 first-floor bedrooms: on south-west with dentilled cornice and dado rail; on south-east with marble fireplace framed by Corinthian pilasters, a modillion cornice and Chinese wallpaper. Rear wing with re-used internal features, some from Lambton Castle (q.v.) including first-floor library with early C19 shelves and a marble chimneypiece with carved decoration of stacked books.
(Christopher Hussey, "Biddick Hall - Durham", Country Life Volume CXXXIX, 1966).
Listing NGR: NZ3145352792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109355
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 89, (1966)
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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