Otterburn Hall

OTTERBURN HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1156287
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Otterburn Hall
Statutory Address:
OTTERBURN HALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1156287
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Otterburn Hall
Statutory Address 1:
OTTERBURN 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OTTERBURN HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Otterburn
National Park:
Northumberland
National Grid Reference:
NY 88380 94333

Details

OTTERBURN OTTERBURN HALL NY 89 SE 25/45 Otterburn Hall 18.2.87 GV II

Country house, now hotel. 1870 for Lord James Douglas. Porch added and entrance front altered 1905 for Sir Charles Morrison-Bell. Billiard room added, and remodelled internally after a fire in 1930. Brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Tudor style, irregular plan.

Entrance front 2 storeys, 5 bays and projecting 3-storey gabled right bay. In 2nd bay large 2-storey porch with pointed-arched doorway flanked by diagonal buttresses with offsets. Above a crest with a bird in a high-relief Baroque wreath, above that a face and swags. On 1st floor 4-light mullioned window, cornice with grotesque carvings and Tudor roses, gargoyles at the angles. Irregular centre 3 bays have large mullioned-and-transomed windows of 3, 4 and 8 lights, the latter an extruded bay. Cross-gabled right bay has mullioned-and-transomed cross windows and a 4-light window on 2nd floor. Decorative Baroque-style rainwater heads. Parapet front to main part. Elsewhere gabled roofs and tall brick stacks with stone cornices.

Large conservatory to rear with lean-to roofs around a taller, rectangular central section with hipped roof.

Late C20 extension to rear not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NY8838094333

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
239705
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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