Hetton Hall
HETTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277031
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hetton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HETTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1277031
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hetton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HETTON HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HETTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chatton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 04059 33420
Details
NU 03 SW CHATTON HETTON
2/28 Hetton Hall
11*
House. C15 tower-house with C18 and Cl9 additions. Dressed stone and rubble. Rendered facade. Welsh slate roof. Tower-house at centre with wings left, right and rear. Tower, 3 storeys, has from lst floor up a semicircular spiral stair projection on large semicircular corbel with ovolo mouldings. At top the projection is corbelled-out to receive a square turret which has gone. Left return at parapet level has rounded corbels. The parapet has gone and the roof was rebuilt possibly in the C16. Gables have splayed coping and a small window with moulded C16 surround. 12-pane sashes, 2 to each floor. Smaller 12-pane sash in stair projection. C18 or early C19 service and farm wing to left. 12-pane sashes between C19 buttresses; round-arched doorway to rear and segmental carriage entry. Apparently C19 range to right of tower has Victorian mullioned windows on right return but earlier sashes on front. Staircase projection to rear of tower has C19 windows in older masonry and some blocked windows. Mid C19 wing to rear. Victorian porch.
Inside the tower is intact. Walls c.6 feet thick. To right of tower, first a passage, then another wall of similar thickness. This contains a massive blocked chimney facing room beyond. In roof space of this range is early masonry. All doors to tower and older wing are 6-panelled and all windows have internal shutters. Doors in rear of house later C19. On Tower 2nd floor an early C18 fireplace with bolection moulding, and in roof space, a fireplace with chamfered jambs and Tudor-arched lintel. Stone stairs gone but newel post remains. Early Cl9 staircases now in front and rear projections. Tunnel-vaulted ground floor remains in part (visible from garage).
Listing NGR: NU0419329573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237496
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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