Morwick Hall And Attached Wall To North West

Morwick Hall is a house of the 18th and early 19th centuries, built in several phases. The centre of the south front is constructed in brick using mixed Flemish and English Garden Wall bonds, with a late 18th-century west extension and rear stair wing in brick with alternating pairs of headers and stretchers every fourth course, and an early 19th-century east extension in English Garden Wall bond (1 and 4 stretchers). Both extensions have cut stone quoins and dressings. The rear wing is built of squared stone with cut dressings. The roof is covered with mixed purple and blue Welsh slate, with rebuilt brick stacks on stone bases.

The south elevation rises to two storeys and comprises three distinct sections. The five-bay centre represents the original early 18th-century house, with a stone plinth and brick first-floor band. A central early 19th-century canted Gothick bay features four-pane sashes under four-centred arches with linked hoodmoulds and a moulded stone top cornice, topped by a pyramidal roof. To the left of this bay are half-glazed double doors with a two-pane overlight and an altered sash window, with twelve-pane sashes above. To the right are four-pane sashes with twelve-pane sashes above, all with flat arched heads. A double-stepped dentilled and cogged eaves cornice runs across, with end stacks featuring stepped and cogged cornices. The two-bay west extension projects slightly forward and displays a stone plinth, first-floor and sill bands, and rusticated quoins. Its left bay contains an altered sash window with a twelve-pane sash above in architraves; the right bay has twentieth-century glazed doors to both floors and a spiral fire escape, with a moulded stone eaves cornice. The one-bay east extension has a stone plinth and rusticated quoins, with twelve-pane sash windows featuring tooled lintels and slightly-projecting sills.

The left return shows the end of the west extension as a canted bay with twelve-pane sash windows in chamfered surrounds and a pyramidal roof. Above it stands a tall wall with flat stone coping that steps down to a rusticated end pier, which holds a flush-panelled door with an intersecting fanlight under a chamfered four-centred arch. This door sits within an early twentieth-century porch. The right return displays the end of the east extension, also as a canted bay with a twentieth-century glazed door at ground level and twelve-pane sashes in chamfered surrounds above, beneath a pyramidal roof. To the right is a two-bay old rear wing with a twentieth-century glazed door at its right and twelve-pane sashes; a brick bay to its right is a nineteenth-century alteration. At the far right is a projecting two-bay wing heightened in the later nineteenth century, with a boarded door beneath two renewed twelve-pane sashes on its inner return.

The rear elevation's right return shows a central projecting three-storey stair wing with a fifteen-pane radial-headed sash stair window in an architrave with moulded imposts and keystone. To its left are a nine-pane short sash on the ground floor and twelve-pane sashes above, all within architraves. The inner return of the old rear wing shows a ground-floor sill band, a flush-panelled door, and twelve-pane sash windows; the end part was heightened in the mid nineteenth century with paired sashes.

The interior features fielded-panel doors and shutters. The Entrance Hall has a dentil cornice. The Sitting Room contains an early nineteenth-century marble fireplace with round pilasters and a carving of a seated muse; panelling was removed to Eglingham Hall in the early twentieth century. A dog-leg open-string stair has urn-on-vase balusters, a moulded and ramped handrail, and a panelled dado with fluted pilasters. The Study, accessed from the stairs, has a fireplace with an egg-and-dart surround, key frieze and dentil cornice, a panelled overmantel with fluted flanking pilasters, and an egg-and-dart cornice. The room above has a fireplace with a panelled surround and old ironwork. The stairhead features a keyed arch on fluted pilasters. The main bedroom has a Gothick fireplace and overmantel; the east bedroom has a two-panel door, dentil cornice, and a fireplace with a moulded surround, key frieze, and egg-and-dart cornice.

The house was built by John Grey, who purchased the estate in 1732 and made extensions and improvements before his death in 1783.

The property has an attached wall to the north-west.