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Overview. Heritage Category: Listed Building. Grade: II* List Entry Number: 1160327. Date first listed: 09-Jan-1968. List Entry Name: Windlestone Hall. Statutory Address: Windlestone Hall, Windlestone Park, Windlestone, Ferryhill, DL17 0LX. Go to the official list entry. The Missing Pieces Project. Share your view of unique places.
Windlestone, County Durham, DL17. Windlestone Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Windlestone, County Durham, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building.
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- Location, Area, Boundaries, Landform and Setting
- Entrances and Approaches
- Principal Building
- Gardens and Pleasure Grounds
- Kitchen Garden
- Park
Windlestone Parklies c 2 km west of Rushyford, on rolling land which falls gently to the south and east. The c 80 ha site is in a setting which is rural and agricultural and the boundaries are formed by the old line of the A689 to the north, a road leading to Home Farm and the edges of woodland called The Breaks to the east, the edge of Office Plan...
The main entrance is from the north where there are walls, piers and gates (listed grade II), probably of early C19 date. On the west side of the entrance there is a lodge (listed grade II) of 1848 in the form of a Greek temple. It is pedimented on both the east and west ends, so that a temple front could be seen from whichever direction the entran...
There has been a house on the site since the C16 or before. Windlestone Hall (listed grade II*) was built c 1835 by Ignatius Bonomi for Sir Robert Johnson Eden, incorporating elements of the earlier building. The house was enlarged in the later C19 and was converted into a residential school in the 1950s, in which use it remains (1998). Some 50 m n...
There are gardens on the east, west and south sides of the Hall. On the east side of the Hall there is a terraced forecourt, now (1998) a car park, with a stone retaining wall and central stone steps leading down to lawns planted with specimen trees. There are views to the east over the park to the North York Moors in the distance. Lawns extend in ...
The kitchen garden lies immediately west of the west terrace. It is a rectangular walled enclosure with a central arched entrance which has Doric pilasters and a triglyph frieze in the north wall (wall and entrance listed grade II). The south side is closed by a ha-ha with flat coping stones (listed grade II). A C19 photograph(Eden 1976) shows that...
There is parkland to the south and east of the Hall. To the south open pasture land with scattered trees is sheltered on all sides by tree belts which are divided from the parkland by ha-has. A series of three lakes runs across the parkland, High Pond is within West Wood, to the east is Middle Pond, and Lower Pond curves to the north-east. Sir John...
Jul 5, 2021 · By Catherine Priestley catherinepecho Chief Reporter (County Durham) Share. A MAJOR restoration scheme for an historic country hall and estate which has fallen into a state of disrepair has been...
Windlestone Hall renovation plans approved. Plans to renovate an at-risk stately home that was birthplace to Anthony Eden have been approved. Grade II*-listed Windlestone Hall near Bishop...
Nov 11, 2018 · Windlestone Hall is an abandoned 19th Century Country House located in County Durham. A manor house has stood at the site since the 1600’s, however, the main building was replaced with the current structure in 1835 with a new mansion by the design of Ignatius Bonomi. The house was also used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II.
