Description

BELFORD BELFORD
NU 1134
16/83 Belford Hall
22.12.69
GV I
Country house, now divided into flats. 1754-56 by James Paine for Abraham
Dixon; wings and rear entrance added 1818 by John Dobson for William Clark.
Ashlar with Scottish slate roof. Palladian style.
Centre block, 2 storeys with high basement, 5 bays. Balustraded steps up to
central doorway in the piano nobile. Pedimented 3-bay centre breaks forward
slightly and has 4 giant engaged Ionic columns with 2 flanking giant Ionic
pilasters. Paired similar pilasters at each end.
Rusticated basement with four 6-pane sashes. Doorway in architrave with
pulvinated frieze and semicircular pediment.12-pane sashes with sill string.
Outer bays have eared chambranlé architraves, pediments and balustraded aprons;
a bold string links the pediments. 6-pane sashes on top floor. Dentilled
cornice, hipped roof with 2 tall corniced ridge stacks.
Dobson's wings, remarkably sympathatic in style, 3 bays with one-bay end
pavilions. Tall rusticated basement, 12-pane sashes. Pavilion windows have
cornices on brackets. Dentilled cornice. Pavilions have small 6-pane sash
above the cornice. Pyramidal roofs.
Rear entrance has tetrastyle Ionic porch in antis. 3-storey tower features
flank the porch and are themselves flanked by 1½-storey, 3-bay sections.
Interior largely gutted for renovation at time of survey. Fragments of Paine
plasterwork retained behind replacement ceilings. 2 marble fireplaces with
Ionic columns; Dobson staircase with cast-iron balusters to be replaced after
restoration.
Summer house (q.v.) is in Easington Parish.

Listing NGR: NU1109934240

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Belford Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4882376

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)