Bedburn Hall And Attached Wall And Outbuilding

Bedburn Hall, built around 1905 for J.W. Fogg-Elliot of Elvet Hill, Durham City, is a house constructed from coursed sandstone rubble, with some areas pebbledashed and brick dressings. The roof is made of small Lakeland slates. The north entrance front is two storeys high with an attic and features five bays that are very irregular. The left bay projects with a gable, while the right bay is blank except for a large stack positioned above the eaves. The central flat-gabled porch has two arched openings, with the right leading to a half-glazed door. All windows are small-paned casements, mostly set in pebbledashed-lined recesses, with wider windows behind tapered shafts: a five-light window above the door and a two-light window in the right bay, while the ground-floor recess has paired round arches. The taller windows in the projecting left bay have segmental and round gauged brick arches, and this bay features a corbelled chimney on the left with the roof extending beyond. The eaves have a corbel table, and there is a low central roof gable with a two-light dormer. A wide stack is located at the junction with the wing. The returns display two-storey bows with large four-light windows on both floors. The back entrance is on the left return, with other windows similar to those at the front. The symmetrical garden front has three wide bays with a similar window treatment: groups of three in the centre bay and two in the outer bays, with round-arched recesses on the ground floor. The central roof gable is M-shaped, featuring twin two-light windows flanked by plain stacks.

There is a flat-coped wall extending from the east return to a one-storey outbuilding, which has a pent pantiled roof that sweeps out over paired garage doors in the right section, along with two boarded doors and two small windows.