Low Buston Hall
LOW BUSTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155303
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Low Buston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LOW BUSTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155303
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Low Buston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW BUSTON 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:
- LOW BUSTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warkworth
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 22496 07409
Details
NU 20 NW WARKWORTH LOW BUSTON
10/311 Low Buston Hall 31.12.69 GV II
House. South wing later C17; major reconstruction in late C18 for Charles Francis Forster; east front dated 1907 on rainwater heads. North and east elevations squared stone with cut dressings; other parts rendered, partly cream-washed. Welsh slate roof with some stacks rebuilt in brick. C17 house with L-plan extensions wrapped round north end.
North (entrance) front in 2 parts. Main left part in 2 sections: Slightly- projecting 2-storey left bay has 1st-floor band; early C20 casement window on ground floor in older opening, and blocked window above; slightly-projecting sills; hipped roof. 3-storey 2-bay right part has Tuscan porch at left end; now with early C20 5-panel door and coloured glazing; similar glazing to window above. Right of porch a stair window with 4-centred arch, holding 12- pane sash with intersecting head; 6-pane casement with timber lintel above. Right bay has early C20 glazing to lower floors and similar 2nd-floor casement. Coped gable to right; rendered ridge and right end stacks. Plain eaves band to both parts. Far right lower 2-storey 2-bay wing; ground floor has renewed 12-pane sash and 16-pane Yorkshire sash, under 3-pane fixed light, with 12-pane sashes above. Roof hipped to right; rebuilt left end stack.
East elevation shows 1907 seven-bay twin-hipped projecting front with round- arched doorway recessed in centre. Set back to left is south wing with renewed 1st-floor window in old chamfered surround; steeply-pitched roof with raised gable coping on moulded kneelers and rebuilt end stacks. Left return of wing shows blocked chamfered window on 1st floor.
Interior: Entrance hall has dog-leg Chinese-Chippendale staircase with moulded ramped handrail, pierced newels and similar stair-head balustrade. Doors with beaded mouldings. Rococo friezes and ceiling decoration in most ground-floor rooms, probably mostly reproduction. Late C17 fireplace from Buston Barns in south wing.
Listing NGR: NU2249607409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237202
- 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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