Bywell Hall
BYWELL HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1370556
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bywell Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BYWELL HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1370556
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bywell Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BYWELL 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:
- BYWELL HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bywell
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 04694 61470
Details
BYWELL BYWELL NZ 0461 23/70 Bywell Hall 20.10.52 GV II*
Villa; 1766 by James Paine, altered and extended in late C19. Ashlar; graduated Lakeland slate roofs. Neo-Palladian style. Original house: 2½ storeys, 3 wide bays under pediment . Rusticated ground floor forming voussoirs to openings. The ground floors of each bay project slightly, the centre bay more. Central half-glazed double door with radial fanlight; flanking renewed 12-pane sashes. Similar sashes in side bays under pedimented entablatures on brackets, flanked by niches. Moulded plinth, 1st floor string and band above with balustraded panels under windows. Giant Ionic Order, through upper floors in centre bay, supports entablature with modillion cornice and pediment enclosing coat of arms flanked by cornucopiae. 3 12-pane sashes on 1st floor under cornices, 3 low lights above. In side bays similar single 1st-floor windows in segmental-pedimented aedicules with swept feet. 6-pane windows above under floating cornices in modillioned open pediments. Roof concealed behind blocking course; 2 corniced stone ridge stacks.
Similar 3-bay returns, the right with an extra set-back entrance bay having door in projecting panel; further 1-bay extension. Domestic ranges continue behind.
Interior: The original staircase has been removed and the hall area re-planned. One ground floor room retains a carved marble fireplace and a Palladian compartmented ceiling from the Paine period.
Listing NGR: NZ0469461470
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239831
- 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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