Clennel Hall
CLENNEL HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155405
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Clennel Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CLENNEL HALL
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- Date:
- 2003-08-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/10494/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155405
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Clennel Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLENNEL 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:
- CLENNEL HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alwinton
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 92904 07161
Details
BIDDLESTONE CLENNEL NT 90 NW 14/29 Clennel Hall 21/10/53 II
House. Originally a tower house with attached house of 1567. Large additions of 1895 for Anthony Wilkinson.
Random rubble with Welsh slate roofs.
Irregular plan. Additions are in Tudor style. 3 storeys.
Garden front has C16 double-depth plan house to left and tower recessed to right. Single-storey corridor in front of tower and single-storey pavilion to right are of 1895.
C16 doorway, almost central in section of 1567, has multi-moulded surround. Scattered fenestration includeds 2-light mullioned windows and probably entirely Victorian mullioned-and-transomed crosses.
Irregular gabled roofs with tall corniced stacks.
Interior: thick walls to tower, segmental-vaulted basement. C16 or C17 plaster panel of hunting scene over window in C16 section. In tower ground floor a 2-light mullioned window. Another on 1st floor and also a stone C17 fireplace with bold bolection-moulded surround. On 2nd floor a large C16 fireplace with Tudor-arched lintel and moulder surround.
Northumberland County History Vol. XIV.
Upper Coquetdale: Dippie Dixon. Frank Graham. 1974.
Listing NGR: NT9290407161
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236115
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Graham, F, Upper Coquetdale, (1974)
Dodds Hope, M, A History of Northumberland in The Parishes of Alnham Chatton Chillingham Eglingham Ilderton Ingram and Whittingham The Chapelries of Lowick and Doddington, Vol. 14, (1935)
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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