NUNWICK HALL AND RANGES AROUND SERVICE COURT

NUNWICK HALL AND RANGES AROUND SERVICE COURT, B6320

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1302602
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: NUNWICK HALL AND RANGES AROUND SERVICE COURT
Statutory Address:: NUNWICK HALL AND RANGES AROUND SERVICE COURT, B6320

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1302602
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: NUNWICK HALL AND RANGES AROUND SERVICE COURT
Statutory Address 1:: NUNWICK HALL AND RANGES AROUND SERVICE COURT, B6320

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUNWICK HALL AND RANGES AROUND SERVICE COURT, B6320

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Simonburn
National Grid Reference:: NY 87957 74134

Details

SIMONBURN B 6320, Nunwick NY 87 SE (East side, off) 9/123 Nunwick Hall and 20/10/52 ranges around service court GV II*

Country house and service court ranges; c.1745-52 probably by Daniel Garrett for Lancelot Allgood; contemporary interior plasterwork by Philip Daniel; entrance porch and dining-room bay added and interior altered c.1829 by Ignatius Bonomi; east range of service court heightened in mid C19. Tooled sandstone ashlar, graduated green slate roofs and ashlar chimneys. 4 ranges around service court on north-east corner of main block.

Main block. 3-storey, 5-bay south (entrance) front has plinth and sill bands. Pair of doors with fanlight and side lights behind tetrastyle Roman Doric porch. 12-pane sashes and square 6-pane sashes (on second floor) in architraves. Pedimented central window on first floor, in splayed architrave with balustraded apron, is flanked by sashes with pulvinated friezes and cornices. Eaves cornice. hipped roof with 2 ridge stacks. Similar 5-bay east return with elongated ground-floor windows"'aid added 2-storey, canted dining-room bay in same style. Venetian stair window on set-back 3-bay section of west return; single-storey, 2-bay link on rear to service court.

Service court. South range: single-storey, 3-bay centre has pedimented doorway, flanking 12-pane sashes in architraves and clock tower on ridge with cupola on arcade of 8 Tuscan columns; flanking 2-storey, 3-bay pedimented pavilions have 12-pane sashes in architraves flanked by niches with 6-pane sashes above; hipped roof. Altered east range: wide 2-storey, 3-bay centre and projecting pedimented end bays; central Venetian doorway and Venetian windows in end bays, all recessed under round arches; 12-pane sashes elsewhere; hipped roof. 2-storey north and west ranges, linked by segmental archway, are altered and have boarded doors and sashes.

Interior not seen but contains high-quality contemporary plasterwork, chimney- pieces etc., as detailed in the articles cited below.

Lean-to shed on west range and later C19 addition on north range of service court are not of special interest.

(Gordon Nares, "Nunwick, Northumberland", Country Life, Vol CXX July 12th & 19th 1956)

Peter Leach, "Designs of a practical man - The Architecture of Daniel Garrett", Country Life, Vol CLVI September 12th and 19th 1974).

Listing NGR: NY8795774134

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 240807
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 120, (1956)
'Country Life' in 1 August, , Vol. 156, (1974)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 31 Northumberland,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.