Newbiggin Hall And Attached Garden Wall To North-East

HEXHAMSHIRE LOW QUARTER NEWBIGGIN NY 96 SW

2/222 Newbiggin Hall and attached garden wall 20.10.52 to north-east.

GV II

House. Core probably late C17, remodelled and extended in mid-C18 (sundial dated 1756), rear wing extended and bay windows added in early C19, loggia early C20, further alterations c 1980. Squared stone with dressings, ashlar bay windows, timber loggia on stone piers, brick garden wall. Slate roof. Irregular L plan.

Main south elevation 2 storeys, 4 bays. Earlier 3-bay left part has rusticated quoins, right bay has channelled raised quoins. Half-glazed door in second bay in Tuscan pilaster-and-entablature surround, Outer bays almost covered by added 2-storey canted bays with canted hipped roofs. All windows sashes with glazing bars, those in inner bays in architraves. Reproduction gothick glazing in beads. Sundial with Surtees' initials at 1st floor centre. Outer bays linked by balustraded loggia on 3 Tuscan columns. Coped gables with moulded kneelers, stepped-and-corniced end and ridge stacks of 2 or 3 conjoined shafts.

Right return 2 gabled bays, the left set slightly forward, with Venetian window; other windows round-arched sashes, all in raised stone surrounds. Right, rear wing and far right tall garden wall with moulded stone coping, curving forward to pier with moulded cap and cast-iron urn with gadrooning and pomegranate finial. Left return rendered, with some Yorkshire sashes.

Interior largely altered C19 and C20. Former servants' hall in rear wing has late C17 plaster ceiling with central Tudor rose, and segmental-arched fireplace (brick voussoirs) with old bread oven and set pot in arched recess. Cellar beneath kitchen has segmental brick vault.

Listing NGR: NY9450760812