Eslington Park
ESLINGTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371446
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Eslington Park
- Statutory Address:
- ESLINGTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371446
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Eslington Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESLINGTON PARK
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:
- ESLINGTON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 04259 12093
Details
WHITTINGHAM ESLINGTON PARK NU 01 SW 9/110 Eslington Park 21/10/53 (formerly listed as Eslington Hall)
GV II*
Country house. 1715-20 with additions of 1796. For the Liddells, Earls of Ravensworth. Ashlar with Lakeland slate roof. U-shaped in plan. Classical style. 2 storeys.
Entrance front 9 bays with 3-bay addition of 1796 to left. Original section has rusticated quoins and central Tuscan porch with triglyph frieze. 12-pane sashes in architraves, those in older part renewed, those in 1796 part of slightly different proportions. Original section has projecting moulded cornice and plain parapet; later section has smaller cornice and honeycomb parapet. Garden front 9 bays. Slightly-projecting outer bays have rusticated quoins. Half-glazed central door in Ionic porch with pulvinated frieze and modillion cornice. 18-pane sashes with thick glazing bars in architraves. Moulded cornice and plain parapet.
Hipped roof with corniced ridge stack.
Interior: Entrance hall has screen of 2 Corinthiin columns, simple early C19 stair with coved plaster ceiling. 1st floor landing has screen of Corinthian columns to left and Venetian screen on right. All decoration, except the stairs, is a mid-C20 replica of the original. one'early C18 staircase remains in east wing with one twisted and one columnar baluster to a tread. Single-storey garage to rear of entrance front, not of special interest. Further mid C19, single-storey addition to left of entrance front forms part of stable block. (q.v.).
Northumberland County History Vol. XIV.
Listing NGR: NU0425912093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236195
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dodds Hope, M, A History of Northumberland in The Parishes of Alnham Chatton Chillingham Eglingham Ilderton Ingram and Whittingham The Chapelries of Lowick and Doddington, Vol. 14, (1935)
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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