List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: PALLINSBURN
List Entry Number: 1042162
Location
PALLINSBURN
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Northumberland
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Ford
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 21-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 238088
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
FORD PALLINSBURN
NT 83 NE
9/121 Pallinsburn
21.9.51
GV II*
Country house. Late C18 or early C19, extended mid C19. The main block
remodelled 1912 for Charles Mitchell. Top storey removed and house
redecorated internally c.1933. Brick in Flemish bond, much of the brick old
and said to be Dutch. Wings have Scottish slate roofs, the main block a
flat concrete roof, hidden behind parapets. Jacobean style. 2 storeys.
Slightly irregular 7-bay centre with projecting 2-storey, 6-bay wings.
Centre block: upper floor set back. 2-bay loggias left and right with Tuscan
columns. Central round-headed doorway with 3-light mullioned overlight, set
in moulded alternating-block surround. 6-light mullioned-and-transomed
window to right, 2 cross windows to left. On 1st floor a large central
canted bay window with 2 transoms. 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows
with segmental pediments. Balustraded parapets to ground and 1st floor.
Tall corniced stacks. Wings have 12-pane sashes in architraves.
Hipped roofs.
Interior: Dining room has barrel-vaulted Tudor-style plaster ceiling with
intersecting ribs framing panels with reliefs of wild animals. Re-used
Jacobean panelling with Ionic pilasters and frieze with strapwork. Re-used
C17 fireplace with moulded surround and jewel stops; above a plaster
inscription BELLO CONTRA TEUTONES FINIT CAROLVS MITCHELL ATQUE UXOR ETUS
SPES RIVVLO PAVLINI RURSUS ACCESSERVENT. Oak room has re-used C16 panelling,
partly linenfold and partly medallion heads. Plaster ceiling. Library has
ceiling with curved ribs forming ogee-headed panels bearing thistles; a
frieze in Baroque style with cherubs and festoons. Hall has screen of 3
Tuscan columns with acanthus necking. Octagon room, fireplace by Bossi;
re-used early C18 niche and panelling. Much more similar decoration.
Listing NGR: NT8978639024
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Map
National Grid Reference: NT 89786 39024
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