Belford Hall Belford, England
Listed Building Data
Belford Hall has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1233314
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 22 December 1969
- Name
- BELFORD HALL
- Location
- BELFORD HALL
- Parish
- Belford
- District
- Northumberland
- Grid Reference
- NU 11099 34240
- Easting
- 411099.0000
- Northing
- 634240.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BELFORD BELFORD NU 1134 16/83 Belford Hall 22.12.69 GV I Country house, now divided into flats. 1754-56 by James Paine for Abraham Dixon; wings and rear entrance added 1818 by John Dobson for William Clark. Ashlar with Scottish slate roof. Palladian style. Centre block, 2 storeys with high basement, 5 bays. Balustraded steps up to central doorway in the piano nobile. Pedimented 3-bay centre breaks forward slightly and has 4 giant engaged Ionic columns with 2 flanking giant Ionic pilasters. Paired similar pilasters at each end. Rusticated basement with four 6-pane sashes. Doorway in architrave with pulvinated frieze and semicircular pediment.12-pane sashes with sill string. Outer bays have eared chambranlé architraves, pediments and balustraded aprons; a bold string links the pediments. 6-pane sashes on top floor. Dentilled cornice, hipped roof with 2 tall corniced ridge stacks. Dobson's wings, remarkably sympathatic in style, 3 bays with one-bay end pavilions. Tall rusticated basement, 12-pane sashes. Pavilion windows have cornices on brackets. Dentilled cornice. Pavilions have small 6-pane sash above the cornice. Pyramidal roofs. Rear entrance has tetrastyle Ionic porch in antis. 3-storey tower features flank the porch and are themselves flanked by 1½-storey, 3-bay sections. Interior largely gutted for renovation at time of survey. Fragments of Paine plasterwork retained behind replacement ceilings. 2 marble fireplaces with Ionic columns; Dobson staircase with cast-iron balusters to be replaced after restoration. Summer house (q.v.) is in Easington Parish.
Listing NGR: NU1109934240
