West Ord
WEST ORD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1155135
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- West Ord
- Statutory Address:
- WEST ORD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1155135
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- West Ord
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST ORD
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:
- WEST ORD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ord
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 95445 51748
Details
ORD WEST ORD NT 95 SE 2/113 West Ord 22.12.69 II*
House. c.1700-1710. Painted ashlar with Scottish slate roof. A symmetrical rectangular house with each pair of opposing facades identical. 2 storeys plus attics, 5 by 2 bays. Chamfered plinth and broad angle pilasters. Central panelled door with overlight, in raised stone surround. Tall, narrow windows with raised stone surrounds, now with C20 plate-glass casements. Bold cornice continuous round the house. Tall plain parapet. Very tall, steeply-pitched near- pyramidal roof with 2 large square ridge stacks and 3 original hipped dormers with 2-light casements.
Interior: Drawing room has panels in eared architraves, C20 fireplace flanked by original full-height Ionic pilasters, wood modillion cornice, two 8-panel doors and a round-headed 12-panel door in keyed architrave.
Staircase: Panelled dado. Boldly-moulded wreathed handrail, turned balusters, moulded tread ends. Two keyed, panelled arches on ground floor and 3 on 1st floor.
Large panelled room on 1st floor, now subdivided into 2 bedrooms. It has 2 round-headed 10-panel doors in panelled reveals with fluted pilasters and keyed archivolts. Fireplace with bolection-moulded surround and full-height Corinthian pilasters. Extremely fine cornice with enriched modillions, egg- and-dart, and finely-detailed oak leaves and other foliage between the modillions. Round-headed niche with enriched moulded surround and shaped shelves.
Also on the 1st floor a 3rd room with fielded panels and wood cornice.
In the attic four 2-panel doors. Original large oak principals dying into the wall face, with one row of trenched purlins.
The house belonged to the Orde Family but its quality may be related to the fact that Margaret Orde was the mistress of Sir William Blackett of Wallington, and that her illegitimate daughter, also called Margaret, became Sir William's heir. The house was probably built before Margaret Orde senior's death in 1712. The interior decoration may date from after the house's full reversal to the Wallington estate in 1726.
North Durham: J. Raine: London, 1852. (Geneology of Orde of West Ord).
Listing NGR: NT9544551748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raine, J, North Durham, (1852)
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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