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Etal Manor

A Grade II* Listed Building in Ford, Northumberland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6486 / 55°38'54"N

Longitude: -2.1132 / 2°6'47"W

OS Eastings: 392972

OS Northings: 639452

OS Grid: NT929394

Mapcode National: GBR F3P3.9Z

Mapcode Global: WH9Z2.H9X2

Plus Code: 9C7VJVXP+CP

Entry Name: Etal Manor

Listing Date: 21 September 1951

Last Amended: 10 March 1988

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1153945

English Heritage Legacy ID: 238044

ID on this website: 101153945

Location: Etal, Northumberland, TD12

County: Northumberland

Civil Parish: Ford

Traditional County: Northumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland

Church of England Parish: Ford And Etal

Church of England Diocese: Newcastle

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Description


FORD ETAL NT 9239 Etal Manor (formerly 16/77 listed as Etal House or (Etal Manor) 21.9.51 GV II*

Country house. 1748 and 1767 for William Carr, extended to rear 1888 for James Laing. Ashlar with Scottish slate roof. Original house L-plan with range of 1767 filling in the angle.

Original house 2 storeys, 7 x 7 bays.

Entrance front: chamfered plinth and rusticated quoins. Central pedimented Venetian doorway with half-glazed door. The fanlight and side lights have thick glazing bars. 12-pane sashes in architraves, ground floor windows with lightly-moulded sill band. The 3 ground-floor left windows have thick glazing bars. Modillion cornice. Hipped roof with 4 banded ridge stacks on returns.

Left return has similar detail. Pediment and pulvinated frieze over central ground-floor windows.

Right return of 1767 has 7 windows with raised surrounds. C19 additions to rear in a style very similar to original work.

Interior: spacious entrance hall with elliptical arch and pedimented door surrounds with pulvinated friezes. Broad open-well stair with ramped and moulded handrail, turned balusters with square knops. Panelled dado with pilasters between the panels. Round-headed stair window with thick glazing bars. Drawing room original panelled dado with moulded rail; panelling above is an addition; modillion cornice. Elsewhere 6-panel doors and shutters.

Listing NGR: NT9297239452

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