Bedburn Hall And Attached Wall And Outbuilding

SOUTH BEDBURN REDFORD LANE NZ 03 SE (South side) 10/170 Bedburn Hall and attached wall and outbuilding GV II House, circa 1905 for J.W. Fogg-Elliot of Elvet Hill, Durham City. Coursed sandstone rubble, pebbledashed in places, with brick dressings. Roof of small Lakeland slates. North (entrance) front 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays, very irregular. Projecting gabled left bay; right bay blank but for large stack, offset above eaves. Central flat-gabled porch, with 2 arched openings, the right to half-glazed door. All windows small-paned casements, mostly in pebbledashed-lined recesses, the wider ones behind tapered shafts: 5-light above door and 2-light in right bay, the ground-floor recess behind paired round arches. Segmental and round gauged brick arches to taller windows in projecting left bay, which has corbelled chimney to left and roof extended beyond. Eaves corbel table; low, central roof gable with 2-light dormer. Wide stack at junction with wing. Returns show 2-storey bows with large 4-light windows on both floors. Back entrance on left return, and other windows similar to front. Symmetrical garden front of 3 wide bays. Similar window treatment: groups of 3 in centre bay and 2 in outer bays; round-arched recesses on ground floor. M-shaped central roof gable, with twin 2-light windows, flanked by plain stacks.

Flat-coped wall from east return to l-storey outbuilding with pent pantiled roof swept out over paired garage doors in right section; 2 boarded doors and 2 small windows.

Source: J. Jamieson, Durham at the Opening of the C20,Brighton 1906, p.107

Listing NGR: NZ0967631552