Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26294064

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets