Tillmouth Park Hotel

CORNHILL-ON-TWEED A 698 NT 84 SE (South side, off) 4/21 Tillmouth Park Hotel 22.12.69 GV II

Hotel. 1882 by Charles Barry Junior, on site of earlier house of c.1810. Ashlar with rock-faced ground floor, Lakeland slate roof. Elizabethan style. Three storeys, three bays with lower 4-bay wing to right. The ground floor is battered. Projecting cross-gabled centre bay has porch with multi-moulded 4-centred-arched doorway, cornice above and carved crest under gablet. Above a large 4-light stair window with two transoms and semi-circular drip mould bearing the date on a shield. Three-light mullioned window in the gable. Flanking bays have 3-light windows, mullioned on the ground floor, mullioned- and-transomed above. Parapet on cornice with corbel table and Tudor flowers. At the corners rounded corbel projections bearing ball finials. Gabled roofs with hipped projections in front. Two-light gabled dormers with decorative bargeboards.

Garden front 5 bays with projecting centre bay. In front of this a flight of stone steps with side walls.

Interior: 3-storey wood open-well stair supported on arched braces. Heraldic glass around door and in large stair window. Many marble fireplaces from the preceeding house. They date from c.1810, several have fluted down-tapering columns with bulgy Corinthian capitals. The original central heating system survives with elaborate cast-iron grilles. The house has cavity walling.

Drawings preserved in Northumberland Record Office.

Listing NGR: NT8852642791