Newbiggin Hall and Attached Garden Wall to North-east

NEWBIGGIN HALL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO NORTH-EAST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1370270
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Newbiggin Hall and Attached Garden Wall to North-east
Statutory Address:
NEWBIGGIN HALL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO NORTH-EAST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1370270
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Newbiggin Hall and Attached Garden Wall to North-east
Statutory Address 1:
NEWBIGGIN HALL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO NORTH-EAST

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NEWBIGGIN HALL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO NORTH-EAST

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hexhamshire
National Grid Reference:
NY 94507 60812

Details

HEXHAMSHIRE LOW QUARTER NEWBIGGIN NY 96 SW

2/222 Newbiggin Hall and attached garden wall 20.10.52 to north-east.

GV II

House. Core probably late C17, remodelled and extended in mid-C18 (sundial dated 1756), rear wing extended and bay windows added in early C19, loggia early C20, further alterations c 1980. Squared stone with dressings, ashlar bay windows, timber loggia on stone piers, brick garden wall. Slate roof. Irregular L plan.

Main south elevation 2 storeys, 4 bays. Earlier 3-bay left part has rusticated quoins, right bay has channelled raised quoins. Half-glazed door in second bay in Tuscan pilaster-and-entablature surround, Outer bays almost covered by added 2-storey canted bays with canted hipped roofs. All windows sashes with glazing bars, those in inner bays in architraves. Reproduction gothick glazing in beads. Sundial with Surtees' initials at 1st floor centre. Outer bays linked by balustraded loggia on 3 Tuscan columns. Coped gables with moulded kneelers, stepped-and-corniced end and ridge stacks of 2 or 3 conjoined shafts.

Right return 2 gabled bays, the left set slightly forward, with Venetian window; other windows round-arched sashes, all in raised stone surrounds. Right, rear wing and far right tall garden wall with moulded stone coping, curving forward to pier with moulded cap and cast-iron urn with gadrooning and pomegranate finial. Left return rendered, with some Yorkshire sashes.

Interior largely altered C19 and C20. Former servants' hall in rear wing has late C17 plaster ceiling with central Tudor rose, and segmental-arched fireplace (brick voussoirs) with old bread oven and set pot in arched recess. Cellar beneath kitchen has segmental brick vault.

Listing NGR: NY9450760812

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Legacy System number:
240592
Legacy System:
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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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