Blenkinsopp Hall
BLENKINSOPP HALL, A 69(T)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370312
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Blenkinsopp Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BLENKINSOPP HALL, A 69(T)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370312
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Blenkinsopp Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLENKINSOPP HALL, A 69(T)
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:
- BLENKINSOPP HALL, A 69(T)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greenhead
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 68172 64130
Details
GREENHEAD A 69(T) NY 66 SE (North side, off) 15/65 Blenkinsopp Hall 24/11/67 GV II
Country house. c.1800 front range (possibly incorporating older core); rear additions and internal alterations of 1835 (possibly by John Dobson) and c.1877 (addition of parapets, porch and rebuilding of rear). Squared rubble front range with ashlar dressings; dressed and ashlar masonry on returns and rear; graduated green slate roofs and ashlar chimneys. Castellated style. Square plan. 2 storeys. 5-bay garden front has chamfered plinth, raised quoins at left and flush quoins at right. Elongated 18-pane sashes on ground floor and 12-pane sashes above in raised surrounds. 2 rainwaterheads dated 1877. Embattled parapet above string masking low-pitched, hipped roof with ridge stacks. Similar parapet, roof and chimney details on returns and rear. Irregular 5-bay right return. One-storey porch with pointed doorway behind open front on 2 square-plan columns; two 2-light mullioned windows on side wall and embattled parapet. Scattered 12-pane sashes and a 4-light mullioned stair window with 2 tiers of transoms. Porch balanced by similar addition at rear. Left return: canted 2-storey bay at rear and taller projecting tower on centre with 2- and 3-light mullioned windows under hoodmoulds; corbelled-out first- floor chimney with 3 octagonal-plan stacks towards front. 2- and 3-storey irregular rear with 3-storey projecting tower at centre and scattered, mainly 2- and 3-light mullioned windows under hoodmoulds. Late C19 interior fittings.
Listing NGR: NY6817264130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240713
- 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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