Swarland Old Hall
SWARLAND OLD HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1303268
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swarland Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SWARLAND OLD HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1303268
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swarland Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWARLAND OLD 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:
- SWARLAND OLD HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton-on-the-Moor and Swarland
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 15977 01928
Details
NEWTON-ON-THE-MOOR SWARLAND NU 10 SE 6/209 Swarland Old Hall GV II*
Manor House, in the style of the third quarter of the C17 possibly by Robert Trollope but with doorhead dated 173 ..., incorporating older fabric; right return remodelled as screen wall in late C18; rear wing extension and outshuts C18, altered in C19. Front and screen wall squared stone, other elevations rubble; cut dressings. Pantile roofs except for Welsh slates on extension and outshuts; stacks rebuilt in C20 brick. Plan: front block with end outshuts and shorter parallel rear wing, extended to west.
South elevation: 2 storeys + attic, 4 narrow bays. Right-of-centre flush- panelled door in wave-moulded surround; frieze with triglyphs, masks and worn, relief-carved date panel; cornice over. Former cross windows have renewed 20-pane sashes on ground floor and paired 8-pane casements above, in cable-moulded surrounds under semicircular pediments, those on 1st floor with carved keystones. Central early C20 gabled wood dormers with paired 4-pane casements. Coped left gable on moulded kneelers; left end stack. Single-storey outshuts to left, with paired 4-pane casements, and right, with paired 6-pane casements.
Right return shows 6-pane sash set in older chamfered surround, itself set within an earlier doorway; cross window above. Upper part of return is a tall stepped embattled screen wall with 3 large blind Gothick arches above a band, and a reset moulded window head with a worn inscription; further left is a stone shield with a carved heron. Left return: front block shows blocked chamfered window now within outshut. Left gable end of rear wing extension has two 8-pane Yorkshire sashes and a 4-pane sash above; behind it the taller gable end of the wing shows a chamfered attic window and an older steeper roofline, with reverse-stepped blocks, beneath the present coping. Rear shows 4-pane sash to stair, and paired 4-pane sashes above.
Interior: Ground-floor front shows old cornice in dining room and late C18 fireplace with contemporary ironwork in bedroom. Fielded-panel doors; round arch with panelled jambs to stair in rear wing: dog-leg to 1st floor, openwell to attic; cut strings, stick balusters, and ramped handrail. East bedroom has wood bolection-moulded fireplace surround with cornice. Upper cruck roofs: trusses concealed above collar level.
Historical notes: Swarland was the seat of die Heslerigg family from the C14 until the early C18. The rear wing west wall, 0.4 metre thick may have been part of a C16 or early C17 strong house. The date of remodelling is puzzling; the house being ascribed to Robert Trollope but the doorhead date is half a century after his death; it may refer to a change of ownership.
Single-storey flat-roofed C20 extension on north is not of interest.
Listing NGR: NU1597701928
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236878
- 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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