Aydon House
AYDON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154726
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Aydon House
- Statutory Address:
- AYDON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154726
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Aydon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- AYDON HOUSE
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:
- AYDON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 00788 65982
Details
CORBRIDGE AYDON (South side) NZ 06 NW 6/107 Aydon House
GV II
? House, dated 1727 with initials I H (partly hidden by ivy) on door surround, altered and extended 1885 by Sept. Oswald & Son for C.A.P. Reed. Squared stone with ashlar dressings; Westmorland slate roof. Rectangular 1727 range has parallel rear wing and east wing of 1885, the latter replacing a C17 house. South (garden) front in 2 parts: Old house to left 3 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical Plinth, 1st and 2nd floor bands. Central half-glazed door in raised roll-moulded surround; C19 plate glass sashes to ground and 1st floors, in older openings with wedge lintels grooved to imitate voussoirs. Shortened 2nd-floor sashes in centre and end bays only. Coped gables with moulded kneelers, stepped-and- corniced end stacks. To right, lower east wing in similar style 2 storeys, 4 bays. Half glazed door in bay 3; coped right gable with moulded kneelers and finial, stepped-and-corniced ridge stack. To far right, attached gable end of single-storey boilerhouse,with 12-pane sash and stepped-and-corniced ridge stack, behind.
Left return shows 5-bay wooden verandah of 1885 with turned columns and 4-centred arches. Set forward to left, gable end of rear wing has 2-storey bow window with plate-glass sashes; 2nd floor has 2 4-pane sashes with round window above, all in raised moulded surrounds. Rear elevation shows projecting flat-roofed porch with moulded cornice; timber loggia to right has 5 steps up to basket- arched entrance flanked by 3-bay dwarf arcades with turned columns and round arches, above walls with moulded coping.
Interior; doorway with broad-chamfered surround at east end of old block may be remnant of C17 house. Good early C18 dogleg stair, with closed strings, turned balusters and moulded handrail, ex-situ in rear wing.
Listing NGR: NZ0078865982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239868
- 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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