Felton Park
FELTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303774
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Felton Park
- Statutory Address:
- FELTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303774
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Felton Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- FELTON PARK
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:
- FELTON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Felton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 17917 00133
Details
FELTON FELTON PARK NU 10 SE 6/l03 Felton Park 5/6/52 GV II
House, 1732 and 1799 altered 1951. 1732 house probably by Canston for Edward Horsley Widdrington, remodelled 1799 for Ralph Riddell; main part demolished 1951. Squared stone with cut dressings; Lakeland slates on front block, Scottish and Welsh slates on wing. Plan: 1799 front block is former east wing, with 1732 L-plan wing at rear.
South front 2 storeys, 7 bays, symmetrical. Plinth, rusticated quoins. 4 steps up to central renewed door with 8-pane overlight; 12-pane sashes except for blind windows in left end bay. Moulded eaves cornice. Hipped roof with 2 rebuilt stepped-and-corniced stacks. 2-bay right return shows 12-pane sashes, renewed on ground floor.
West elevation 6 + 3 bays. Rusticated quoins, sill bands. Left part shows old boarded door in rusticated surround in bay 4, and 12-pane sash windows, some renewed, in moulded surrounds. Roof hipped to left, with stepped-and- corniced ridge stack. Attached 3-step mounting block near left end. Similar 3-bay left return with 2 ground-floor windows blind. Projecting right part shows similar doorway re-set from demolished part and various sashes, some renewed and in re-set surrounds; rainwater head inscribed RR 1799 on inner return.
Rear of wing shows central projection with boarded door and 4-pane overlight in rusticated surround, 12-pane sash above and hipped roof; projecting part to right shows blocked elliptical arch in raised alternating-block surround on inner return. At rear of front block is G III R rainwater head from Old Cavalry Buildings in Canterbury.
Interior: Front block has 3 segmental-arched fireplaces of former kitchen in rear wall; bedrooms above, formerly nurseries, have fielded-panel doors and coved ceilings with enriched cornices. Rear wing has entrance passage flanked by round-arched stone doorways with imposts and keystones.
Listing NGR: NU1816700130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236772
- 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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