THE CHAPEL OUTBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS AT NORTH END OF ROCK HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371219
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: THE CHAPEL OUTBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS AT NORTH END OF ROCK HALL
Statutory Address:: THE CHAPEL OUTBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS AT NORTH END OF ROCK HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1371219
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: THE CHAPEL OUTBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS AT NORTH END OF ROCK HALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE CHAPEL OUTBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS AT NORTH END OF ROCK HALL

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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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:: THE CHAPEL OUTBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS AT NORTH END OF ROCK HALL

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District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rennington
National Grid Reference:: NU 20091 20288

Details

NU 2020 RENNINGTON ROCK VILLAGE (West end)

15/218 The Chapel: Outbuilding and yard walls at north end of Rock Hall GV II

Outbuildings with attached yard walls. Medieval, altered in early C19. Rubble with cut dressings; Welsh slate roof. The 'Chapel' is a rectangular east-west building; its west end forms part of a wall running north from the north-west corner of the Hall to join the south end of the garden wall (q.v.); and a second wall runs east from its north-east corner, returning south to join the north-east corner of the Hall and thus enclosing an irregular yard.

South wall of 'Chapel' shows blocked doorway with 2-centred chamfered arch; two 2-light mullioned windows to right and a C20 window above; coped gable ends, truncated stack near left end of ridge. Right return is C19 rebuild, with wide pointed window; rear elevation, inside later outbuilding, shows another 2-light window. Short length of crenellated wall to south joins Hall north-west wing. Longer length of wall to north shows blocked opening with timber lintel. Wall to east, with chamfered doorway, is 0.9 metre thick and probably medieval, but thinner southward return may be early C19; this section has a canted projection with a three-light mullioned-and- transomed window.

Interior of 'Chapel' shows remains of large blocked segmental-arched fireplace, with two brick-lined ovens in blocking.

Whether the 'Chapel' actually had an ecclesiastical function is unclear; in the C17 it would seem to have served as a detached kitchen. The canted projection follows the form of Dobson's early C19 extensions at the south end of the Hall, and may have been built then in its present ruined form.

Listing NGR: NU2009120288

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Legacy System number:: 237109
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.