Burnhopeside Hall
BURNHOPESIDE HALL, A691
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1299442
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Burnhopeside Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BURNHOPESIDE HALL, A691
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1299442
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Burnhopeside Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURNHOPESIDE HALL, A691
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:
- BURNHOPESIDE HALL, A691
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lanchester
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 18669 46186
Details
LANCHESTER A691 (South side) NZ 14 NE 6/59 Burnhopeside Hall 17/1/67 GV II*
House. Probably C18, altered and considerably enlarged early C19 for William Hedley, railway locomotive pioneer; late C19 billiard room. Sandstone ashlar, with rubble earlier right wing; Lakeland slate roof; Welsh slate roof on billiard room; stone-flagged right wing roof. L-plan. Main house 2 storeys, 3 bays on garden front, with central porch of one storey, one bay containing half-glazed door and fanlight with glazing bars in surround of pilasters and arch; lattice-glazed round-headed windows in porch returns; cornice and blocking course. Giant pilasters frame pecked-and-margined ashlar front. Tripartite ground-floor windows have aprons and floating cornices on acanthus- scroll brackets; lugged architraves and sill band to first-floor 12-pane sashes, the central bay projecting slightly. Top cornice and blocking course, with low triangular top over central bay. Hipped roof has 2 central corniced chimneys.
Right set-back wing, of 2 lower storeys, 4 bays, has flat stone lintels over renewed door and 3-light window; blank first floor; ridge chimneys. Left return has one-storey, 2-bay billiard room extension in same style as main house.
Interior: dado rails, stucco cornices with classical moulding, and stucco ceiling roses, with central acanthus leaves in roundel of oak leaves, in main ground-floor rooms; hall has pilasters; stone stair with wreath and curtail.
C20 rear one-storey, one-bay addition not of special interest.
Historical note: Hedley was the designer of Puffing Billy for the Wylam Colliery wagonway 1813-1815; he was also the first to demonstrate that the weight of the engine would create adhesion to the lines and that toothed wheels were not necessary.
Sources: Nicholas Wood, A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads and Interior Communication in General, 1825; letter from William Hedley in Newcastle Courant 17 December 1836.
Graded for historical interest.
Listing NGR: NZ1866946186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350565
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood, N, A Practical Treatise on Railroads and Interior Communication in General, (1825)
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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