Augmented
Extract from Listed Buildings Survey
Church of St
Mary
Originally Norman, a 13th century Chancel Arch remains but the whole church was
in ruins in 1820 and was restored by Dobson in 1828, again remodelled in 1873.
Nave by J. Green. Low chancel, nave with paired pointed lancets, and North aisle
with upper half blocked and the aisle ceiling lowered to half way up the North
windows. West tower and modern South porch. William Clark bust c.1837.
Church Street
Part of an interesting group with Market Place.
No. 1
Early 19th C, stone with slate roof.
No. 2 (Post Office)
Mid 19th C, slate roof, 2 storeys, panelled doors, 4 windows on ground floor and
7 above. Sash windows with projecting sills.
Nos. 3,4,5,6,7)
Late 18th C, slate roofs, 2 storeys, a terrace of 4 houses, c.1820, ashlar with
Welsh slate roofs, 2 storeys, 8 bays in total, 6 panel doors
n.b.
Nos. 1-7 Church Street form a group together with Nos. 1-3
Clark Place
No. 1 + 2
Formerly one house with attached dairy. Early-mid 18th C with left 2 bays added
in early 19th C. Stone rubble, slate roof hipped at west end, otherwise pantiled.
Two storeys with panelled doors and paned sash windows.
Terrace of 3 houses, c.1820. Dressed stone, 2 storeys. All have glazing bars.
No. 3
2 sashes down, 3 up.
No. 4
3 sashes down, 4 up.
No. 5
The Old Vicarage has 5 sashes down, 6 up (2 were unblocked by the present owner
in 1983).
High Street, East Side
No. 33 (Blenheim)
18th century, scored stucco, pantiled roof with 2 old brick chimneys, 2 low storeys,
2 doors, 3 sash windows on each floor (12 and 6 paned). Rear parallel block of
stone rubble and also a further wing at right angles at rear.
No. 37
Early 19th century, Ashlar, hipped slate roof, 2 storeys. Centre panelled door
in shallow porch of tuscan jambs, cornice and pediment. 2 multi-paned sash windows
on ground floor and 3 smaller ones above. Return sides have 3 windows. Low single
storeyed wing on North end has 2 similar windows.
No. 41 (The Croft)
Square ashlar villa c. 1840, hipped slate roof behind parapet, cornice band and
pilastered corners, 2 storeys. 3 large 12-paned sash windows on ground floor and
3 6-paned sashes above. Entrance on South front with centre Roman Doric porch
with 3 windows.
West Side
Nos. 2 - 54 form a group, in late Georgian style
Nos. 2-30
All 2 storeys, stone, slate roofs, hipped at each end of the row (Nos 4 and 6
are pantiled). No 2 has centre panelled double door and fanlight, 2 12-paned sash
windows on ground floor and 3 above. Nos. 4 and 6 are stuccoed, shop window, door
and fanlight and a 12-paned sash window on ground floor, 4 12-paned sashes above.
Nos. 8 & 10 have a small oriel bay window and 2 small-paned bow windows flanking
a door with moulded facing (formerly a shop). Nos. 12, 14, 16 have 2 bowed shop
windows. Nos. 18, 20, 22 with 16-paned sashes and a fine 19th century shop front
to No. 22 (newsagent) with centre Gothic traceried door and fanlight and flanking
small paned windows, all under moulded dentilled cornice. Nos. 24, 26, 28 have
3 doors with fanlights, 9 windows above. Return side to left has hipped roof and
5 windows (No 30 doorway is on this return side.)
Nos.32-46 & Nos.48-54
Similar block of cottages to Nos. 2 - 30. All of stone, slate or pantiled roofs,
all 2 storeys. Small shop front to No. 34. Some double sashes, some windows in
pairs. No 44 is on the South end of row and No. 46 is in rear wing.
Southernmost row of cottages in this group, opposite No. 37. Pebbledashed stone,
half pantiled, half new tiles, 3 doors and a shop window on ground floor, 6 small
sashes above.
Market Place
Continues the Church Street group. Early 19th C.
Black Swan Hotel
Roughcast with painted stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Has a Venetian bar
and 3 upper windows.
No. 2)
2 storeys, 4 bays. Shop and house.
No. 3)
Gabled roof.
Blue Bell Hotel
Georgian, brick facade, slate roof with 6 chimneys, 2 low storeys, long low proportions.
Wide Tuscan porch with wood cornice and pediment over door. Traceried fanlight
and flanking narrow sashes, 5 12 paned sashes to right, 4 to left, 10 6 paned
above, all in moulded frames.
Market Cross
Set on 2 steps with plinth, a tall square shaft with chamfered corners, cornice
and small modern cross on top.
North Bank
No. 1
Perhaps c. 1700. Stuccoed, red tiled roof, 2 low storeys, moulded cornice at first
floor level, centre panelled door, 2 sash windows on ground floor and 3 above.
Extended to rear in early 19th C. This house is the very old vicarage.
No. 3
c. 1830. Pebbledashed, slate roof, 2 storeys, centre panelled door and fanlight,
2 12-paned sashes on ground floor and 3 above with internal panelled shutters.
West Street
No. 1
No. 1 is on return side of No. 2 High Street. Stone, slate roof, 2 storeys, door
and 3 12-paned sashes on ground floor, 4 similar sashes above and a blocked cellar
window.
No. 3)
Nos. 3 and 5 are early 18th century. Brick with slate roofs,
No. 5)
2 storeys and cellars (stone basement storey), 2 doors up steps, 2 12-paned sashes
and a small window on ground floor with 4 12- paned sashes above.
General
Belford Hall
1754-56 by James Paine, wings and rear entrance by Dobson in 1818. 2 storeys.
Rusticated basement, balustraded steps up to centre door and curved pediment and
flanking sashes, all enclosed by giant attached Ionic columns with frieze and
pediment. End coupled pilasters and top dentilled windows. Symmetrical and wings
have one storey with 3 sashes and end pavilions of 2 storeys, all added to left
and right of rear of the original house. Centre rear has added Ionic portico of
4 columns in antis. The entire hall was thoroughly restored starting in 1983.
The Northern Heritage Trust appointed local architects Reavell and Cahill to carry
out the work.
South Lodge to Belford Hall
Early 19th century, probably by Dobson. Ashlar, hipped roof, slate, Tuscan porch
of 4 square piers, canted end bays with pilasters and sash windows.
West Hall
Gothic Victorian Folly, built in form of a castle keep. A fireplace dated 1849.
Stone, battlemented, corner turret, 2 high storeys and cellars, square plan, stone
mullioned and transomed windows, pyramidal roof behind battlements, stone floors,
2 stone fireplaces, pine doors, chimneys projecting on corbels.
Detchant Farm House
Late C 18. Rendered facade, dressed stone elsewhere; ashlar dressings. Scottish
slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with lower service wing to left. Plinth and rusticated
quoins. Central pedimented porch with pilasters; panelled door with overlight;
8 pane windows on returns. Sash windows in raised stone surrounds. Steeply-pitched
roof with flat coping and end stacks, the right one renewed in brick. 2-bay service
wing to left with a lower roof to each bay. Interior: staircase with brick balusters
and turned newels; six panel doors and shutters.
Middleton Hall
Country house, now divided into 5 units. 1871 for Col. Leather. West wing added
1925. Rock faced stone with graduated Lakeland slate roof. Irregular plan; Tudor
style. 2 and 3 storeys, 8 irregular bays. In 3rd bay balustraded steps to 6-panel
2-leaf door with fanlight, in porch with heavily rusticated columns, dentil cornice
and parapet with semicircular pediment bearing cartouche and flanked by obelisk
finials.
Cross-gabled flanking bays break forward slightly from wall face and have large
mullioned-and-transomed windows with 4-centred heads to lights. Projecting left
bay has canted bay window with pierced parapet and similar windows. Steeply-pitched
gabled roofs with flat coping and ball finials. Tall, ridge and end stacks of
2-, 3- and 4-conjoined octagonal shafts. Lower west wing in similar style. Interior
not seen. Said to have largely contemporary fittings. West wing remodelled internally
c. 1935 using materials from Haggerston Castle.
The Needles
2 Navigation Beacons at north end of Ross Links. Between 1820 and 1840 for Trinity
House, Newcastle Ashlar. Tall square tapering obelisks about 30ft. high and 150
yards apart.
Mill House
Mid 18th C. (shown on estate map of 1771). Scored stucco facade, random rubble
elsewhere, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 broad bays. 6-panel door with overlight
in raised, round-headed alternating-block surround. Sash windows in raised surrounds.
Steeply-pitched roof with reverse-stepped gables. Rendered, banded end stacks
and ridge stacks.
Limekiln
Situated c.600 yards south-west of Dick's Oldwalls. Early 19th C.
Swinhoe
Squared stone with dressings and brick linings. Hexagonal screen with 3 large
segmental openings which reduce in size internally; outer parts of arches lined
in brick, inner parts stone. Round-headed drawing eyes. Well-preserved brick-lined
pot.
Belford Station
Although technically just over the border in Easington Parish, Belford Station
is now a private dwelling and is a very typical 'railway' building from the Victorian
age. It is the last reminder of that mode of transport afforded as the Intercity
trains flash between Newcastle and Berwick.
Welcome House
Listed buildings tend to be ones built in the far past which is evidently not
the case with this fine modern house. It would be an outstanding building in any
company and any time.
The site was bought by Dr and Mrs Morrison in 1988 and in conjunction with Bain
Swan, Architects of Berwick the house is largely to Dr Morrison's personal design
and completed in December 1991. The outstanding feature is the huge solar energy
capture area facing south.
Dr Morrison tells us that after modifying several houses in his lifetime and often
being somewhat dissatisfied with the result, this building was built around him
rather than him trying to fit into someone elses layout. Looking to the future
it seems right that we should conclude our survey of Belford for 1995 with a building
of our times and a reminder of the past.
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