Middleton Hall, Earle

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Middleton Hall
Northumberland
Middleton Hall in Earle,Northumberland - geograph 6205058.jpg
Middleton Hall
Location
Grid reference: NT98882550
Location: 55°31’24"N, 2°1’9"W
Village: Earle
History
Built 1807
Country house
Information

Middleton Hall is a Georgian country house standing to the south of the hamlet of Earle in Northumberland.

The house was built on the site of a medieval bastle house.[1] This may also have been the location of a village in the Middle Ages, recorded as 'Middleton-hall'.[2]

The house of today was built in 1807 for the Greenwich Hospital Commissioners: the datestone in the pediment bears the initials 'GH', either for the Greenwich Hospital or for the first tenant. George Hughes. The house is a Grade II listed building.[3]

The house is on two storeys with three bays with lower wings projecting to side and rear. Ten steps lead up to six-panelled door in open Tuscan porch. The side panels of the porch are of the later 19th century.

References

  1. Middleton Hall, near Wooler: Co-Curate
  2. Site Details: Keys To The Past
  3. National Heritage List 1370920: Middleton Hall (Grade II listing)