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Latitude: 54.9872 / 54°59'13"N
Longitude: -1.8028 / 1°48'10"W
OS Eastings: 412713
OS Northings: 565863
OS Grid: NZ127658
Mapcode National: GBR HBVS.H0
Mapcode Global: WHC3G.8XR3
Plus Code: 9C6WX5PW+VV
Entry Name: Close House
Listing Date: 27 August 1969
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1154745
English Heritage Legacy ID: 238613
ID on this website: 101154745
Location: Houghton, Northumberland, NE15
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Heddon-on-the-Wall
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Heddon-on-the-Wall St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: English country house
HEDDON-ON-THE-WALL CLOSE HOUSE NZ 16 NW
20/128 Close House 27.8.69
GV II*
Country house. 1779 for Calverly and Margaret Bewick. Ashlar with Lakeland slate roof. Classical style. Three storeys, 5 bays with slightly-projecting pedimented 3-bay centre. 2-leaf door in stone Ionic doorcase with attached columns and open pediment. Ground and lst floor sill bands and broader 1st floor band. Renewed sashes in architraves on ground floor. On 1st floor 12- pane sashes in architraves with pulvinated friezes and cornices; pediment over centre window. Square 6-pane sashes in architraves on 2nd floor. Modillion cornice. Hipped roof with banded ridge stacks. 5-bay returns. On right return large single-storey bow window dated 1800 on rainwater head. 2-storey, 4-bay service wing to rear has 2 bays with 12-pane sashes and 2 bays with Venetian windows on ground floor and tripartite windows above.
Interior: Rococo Room, with elaborate mid C19 Rococo plasterwork including relief panels of musical instruments and cherubs and sopraporte oval panels of classical scenes; elaborate marble fireplace with festoons, angle scrolls, and crest in centre inscribed CMB for Calverley and Mary Bewick.
Gold Room has possibly re-used earlier C18 fireplace with bolection-moulded surround; enriched cornice and flanking full-height fluted Ionic pilasters; also an Adam-style plaster ceiling of c.1800.
Open-well cantilevered stair with iron stick balusters and ramped handrail. On second floor, the former nursery floor, the stairwell is screened by two tiers of turned balusters with square knops.
Listing NGR: NZ1271365863
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