Belford Hall
BELFORD HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1233314
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Belford Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BELFORD HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1233314
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Belford Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELFORD 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:
- BELFORD HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Belford
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 11099 34240
Details
BELFORD BELFORD NU 1134 16/83 Belford Hall 22.12.69 GV I Country house, now divided into flats. 1754-56 by James Paine for Abraham Dixon; wings and rear entrance added 1818 by John Dobson for William Clark. Ashlar with Scottish slate roof. Palladian style. Centre block, 2 storeys with high basement, 5 bays. Balustraded steps up to central doorway in the piano nobile. Pedimented 3-bay centre breaks forward slightly and has 4 giant engaged Ionic columns with 2 flanking giant Ionic pilasters. Paired similar pilasters at each end. Rusticated basement with four 6-pane sashes. Doorway in architrave with pulvinated frieze and semicircular pediment.12-pane sashes with sill string. Outer bays have eared chambranlé architraves, pediments and balustraded aprons; a bold string links the pediments. 6-pane sashes on top floor. Dentilled cornice, hipped roof with 2 tall corniced ridge stacks. Dobson's wings, remarkably sympathatic in style, 3 bays with one-bay end pavilions. Tall rusticated basement, 12-pane sashes. Pavilion windows have cornices on brackets. Dentilled cornice. Pavilions have small 6-pane sash above the cornice. Pyramidal roofs. Rear entrance has tetrastyle Ionic porch in antis. 3-storey tower features flank the porch and are themselves flanked by 1½-storey, 3-bay sections. Interior largely gutted for renovation at time of survey. Fragments of Paine plasterwork retained behind replacement ceilings. 2 marble fireplaces with Ionic columns; Dobson staircase with cast-iron balusters to be replaced after restoration. Summer house (q.v.) is in Easington Parish.
Listing NGR: NU1109934240
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408798
- 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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