Newbiggin Hall And Attached Garden Wall To North-East

Newbiggin Hall is a house that likely dates back to the late 17th century, with remodels and extensions made in the mid-18th century, including a sundial dated 1756. The rear wing was extended and bay windows were added in the early 19th century, and a loggia was constructed in the early 20th century, with further alterations around 1980. The building is made of squared stone with dressings, features ashlar bay windows, a timber loggia on stone piers, and a brick garden wall. It has a slate roof and an irregular L-shaped plan.

The main south elevation has two storeys and four bays. The left part, which is the earlier three bays, has rusticated quoins, while the right bay features channelled raised quoins. There is a half-glazed door in the second bay set within a Tuscan pilaster-and-entablature surround. The outer bays are mostly covered by added two-storey canted bays with hipped roofs. All windows are sashes with glazing bars; those in the inner bays are framed in architraves and have reproduction gothick glazing. A sundial with the initials of Surtees is located at the centre of the first floor. The outer bays are connected by a balustraded loggia supported by three Tuscan columns. The gables are coped with moulded kneelers, and there are stepped and corniced end and ridge stacks with two or three conjoined shafts.

The right return features two gabled bays, with the left bay set slightly forward and containing a Venetian window. The other windows are round-arched sashes, all within raised stone surrounds. The right side has a rear wing and a tall garden wall with moulded stone coping, which curves forward to a pier topped with a moulded cap and a cast-iron urn decorated with gadrooning and a pomegranate finial. The left return is rendered and includes some Yorkshire sashes.

The interior has been largely altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The former servants' hall in the rear wing retains a late 17th-century plaster ceiling featuring a central Tudor rose, along with a segmental-arched fireplace made of brick voussoirs, which includes an old bread oven and a set pot in an arched recess. There is also a cellar beneath the kitchen with a segmental brick vault.