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Latitude: 55.6017 / 55°36'5"N
Longitude: -1.8254 / 1°49'31"W
OS Eastings: 411099
OS Northings: 634240
OS Grid: NU110342
Mapcode National: GBR H3PN.LS
Mapcode Global: WHC0J.XGYK
Plus Code: 9C7WJ52F+MR
Entry Name: Belford Hall
Listing Date: 22 December 1969
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1233314
English Heritage Legacy ID: 408798
ID on this website: 101233314
Location: Belford, Northumberland, NE70
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Belford
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Belford St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: English country house
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
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