THE BLACKBIRD INN - Ponteland - List Entry

  • Description

    "Formerly a manor house, now an inn. Medieval tower, altered and house added mid C17 for Mark Errington. Restored early C20. Tower large random rubble with stone slate roof. Attached house roughly-dressed stone and Welsh slate roof. Old brick chimneys. Tower, on left, has large projecting chimney to left with stone base rising to 2 tall brick shafts. To right a projecting 3-storey gabled frontispiece, blank on ground floor and oversailing above on 2 large rounded corbels. Two 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows above, with strings rising to form hoodmoulds. Gabled roof with kneelers....Interior of tower has tunnel-vaulted ground floor and a large C17 fireplace; the lintel carved with crenellations.....:
  • Owner

    Historic England
  • Source

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  • Further information

    Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1042690?
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 7 months ago
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