Guyzance Hall and East Wing Cottage
GUYZANCE HALL AND EAST WING COTTAGE, GUYZANCE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304198
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Guyzance Hall and East Wing Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GUYZANCE HALL AND EAST WING COTTAGE, GUYZANCE HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304198
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Guyzance Hall and East Wing Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUYZANCE HALL AND EAST WING COTTAGE, GUYZANCE 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:
- GUYZANCE HALL AND EAST WING COTTAGE, GUYZANCE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Acklington
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 21236 03685
Details
ACKLINGTON GUYZANCE HALL NU 20 SW 7/24 Guyzance Hall, and East Wing 31.12.69 Cottage GV II
Country House: Original Barnhill farmhouse c.1800 with major extensions 1894 by W.H. Knowles for J.D. Milburn; tower c.1920.
Squared stone except for squared rubble in north-west wing and snecked stone ballroom extension; graduated Lakeland slate roofs except for red clay tiles on ballroom range and flat roofs (not seen) on tower and ballroom extension. Irregular L-plan. Late C19 and early C20 parts in neo-Tudor style.
South elevation: House to left, ballroom range to right. House in 3 sections: 2-storey, 3-bay left part is original farmhouse with inserted cross window in former central doorway and flanking full-height canted bays; embattled parapet. Centre part is 3- + 4-storey 3-bay tower: projecting centre bay with coffered double doors in moulded 4-centred arch under canted oriel, and large sundial J initialled L M below carved cornice; transomed windows on returns; lower side parts with mullioned and mullioned-and-transomed windows; embattled parapets. 2-storey, 2-bay right part has timber-framed 1st floor with pebbledashed infill, and gablets over windows. All windows leaded casements. Chimney stacks with multiple octagonal shafts and moulded cornices. Lower ballroom range to right has single-storey front extension, with half-glazed door flanked by 2-light windows. Projecting cross-gabled right end bay, behind outbuilding range (q.v.) is East Wing Cottage, with early C20 casements on right return. 4-bay west (entrance) front has right-of-centre projecting porch with Ionic screen, transomed 1st floor window with '1894' date panel in blind upper light, and shaped gable; various sash windows.
Interior: Open-well stair in tower. Dining room has re-set C18 pine panelling from North Seaton Hall (now demolished), with fluted Corinthian pilasters flanking the fireplace and a good cornice. Ballroom has coffered segmental ceiling, minstrel's gallery on Ionic columns and central arcade.
Listing NGR: NU2123603685
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236694
- 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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