STABLE BLOCK OF FORMER CRESSWELL HALL

STABLE BLOCK OF FORMER CRESSWELL HALL, CRESSWELL HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371022
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK OF FORMER CRESSWELL HALL
Statutory Address:: STABLE BLOCK OF FORMER CRESSWELL HALL, CRESSWELL HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371022
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK OF FORMER CRESSWELL HALL
Statutory Address 1:: STABLE BLOCK OF FORMER CRESSWELL HALL, CRESSWELL HALL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: STABLE BLOCK OF FORMER CRESSWELL HALL, CRESSWELL HALL

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District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cresswell
National Grid Reference:: NZ 28799 93014

Details

CRESSWELL CRESSWELL HALL NZ 29 SE 8/1 Stable Block of former Cresswell Hall 20.10.69 GV II Stable block, 1829 by John Shaw for Addison John Cresswell-Baker. Tooled-and- margined ashlar; slate roofs. Imposing ranges on 3 sides of a court closed to south by a wall with flat coping. North range 2 storeys, 7 bays, the central projecting under a clock tower: doorway with cornice on moulded corbels, modillion cornice at eaves level, 3-light mullioned window to 2nd floor. Moulded set-back clock stage with clock faces under garlands. Roman Doric bellcote with square piers distyle in antis on each side and low-pitched pyramidal roof with antefixae. Bays flanking tower have paired carriage entrances with stone lintels beneath moulded cornices; and corniced doorways between end bays. Window openings empty; all openings have chamfered surrounds. Eaves cornice with paired brackets. 4 corniced ridge stacks with conjoined shafts.

West range 5 bays with similar detail. Central bay set forward with large archway; imposts, moulded keystone, modillion cornice and parapet over. Roof hipped to left. At far left lower wall with segment-headed arch links with wall closing courtyard on south. East range 4 bays, irregular fenestration.

Interior: stone open-well stair in north range behind tower. Derelict and partly roofless at time of survey.

Cresswell Hall, built 1821-4, was demolished in 1937.

Listing NGR: NZ2879993014

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Legacy System number:: 238146
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.