Ridley Hall

RIDLEY HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1370842
Date first listed:
10-Jun-1952
Statutory Address:
RIDLEY HALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1370842
Date first listed:
10-Jun-1952
Statutory Address 1:
RIDLEY HALL

Location

Statutory Address:
RIDLEY HALL

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bardon Mill
National Grid Reference:
NY 79515 64086

Details

NY 76 SE BARDON MILL RIDLEY

Ridley Hall (Previously listed under 8/23 the Civil Parish of Ridley) 10/6/52 II

Country House. Stable wing 1743, main block 1891 by Horatio Adamson, with datestones on porch and tower. 1743 wing tooled and margined stone with hipped slate roof. 1891 block ashlar with steeply-pitched slate roofs. 1891 building of irregular plan with large octagonal tower at the south-west corner. Free Neo- Tudor style. South (garden) front in 3 main sections: tall 3-storey battlemented tower, with stair turret, at left; lower 3-gabled 3-bay centre; 2-storey set- back rear wing. Stone mullioned-and-transomed windows, 2 battlemented 2-storey canted bays. Copings, finials and kneelers to gables. North (entrance) front of 5 irregular bays has 2-storey projecting porch with Tudor-arched entrance and octagonal extruded stair turret. Similar fenestration and roof treatment. Several stacks with tall conjoined octagonal shafts. Various heraldic panels with Bowes Lyon crest. Former stable wing to west much altered but retains north front of 2 storeys, 1:2:3 bays. 1st floor band, modillion cornice to left bay and to open pedimented gable of slightly projecting 2-bay section,with rusticated quoins and 2 carriage arches with rustication below moulded imposts and to archivolts. Quoins also rusticated. Arches now blocked. 12-pane sashes in architraves, some altered, and keyed oculus in tympanum. 2 stepped and corniced ashlar ridge stacks.

Interior: main block has impressive entrance hall with ornate stair, gallery and coffered ceiling. A number of fittings and some panelling have been brought from elsewhere, including a c16 fireplace from Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire.

Listing NGR: NY7951564086

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