CAPHEATON HALL AND WALLS ATTACHED
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1154285
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- Statutory Address:
- CAPHEATON HALL AND WALLS ATTACHED
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CAPHEATON HALL AND WALLS ATTACHED
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Capheaton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 03899 80497
Details
CAPHEATON CAPHEATON
NZ 08 SW
3/85 Capheaton Hall
27.8.52 and walls attached
GV I
Country house. 1668 by Robert Trollope. Wings added for Sir Edward Swinburne
who died in 1786. North front added late C18 by William Newton for Sir John
Swinburne. Ashlar with Lakeland slate roof.
South front: Baroque. 2 storeys and basements, 5 bays. Divided by giant
pilasters with rusticated bases, intermittent banded rustication to ground floor,
and bulgy rustication above. Semicircular steps up to central door in elaborate
surround; Corinthian columns carved with vine leaves, and bases with relief
carvings of a beggar and a knight; scrolled pediment holding Swinburne coat of
arms. 2-light mullioned windows with raised rounded surrounds carved with leaf
garlands. Above outer ground-floor windows are dated sundials in frames of
dogtooth. Above inner ground floor windows are carved flower vases. The dentil
cornice is a replacement by Newton. Hipped roof with corniced ridge stacks.
Similar detail on returns. East side has central doorway with surround of thick,
naturalistic fruit and leaf carving; elaborate crest above. Recessed lower 5-bay
wing has 12-pane sashes with projecting keystones. Ramped walls c. 20 yards
long run south from ends of wings; wall to west has C17 doorway with scrolled
pediment.
North side: Classical style. 7-bay main block with 3-bay pedimented centre.
Half-glazed door in open Tuscan porch. 12-pane sashes in architraves. Oeil-de-
boeuf window in pediment. Lower L-plan 3-bay wings, with 6-bay inner returns
enclosing forecourt, have 12-pane sashes in plain reveals with keystones.
Interior: Hall has restrained mid C18 plaster ceiling, fielded panelling and
Palladian doorcases. Similar ceiling in ground floor south-east room.
Country Life Vol. CXXXVIII.
Listing NGR: NZ0389980497
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238570
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 138, ()
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.
End of official listing
