[80385] Wallington : Central Hall

Wallington, Northumberland, 1688.

For Sir William Blackett.

Remodelled 1735-45 for Sir William Calverley Blackett.

By Daniel Garrett.

Further alterations for Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet (1809-1886) on the advice of John Ruskin, 1853-54.

By John Dobson (1787-1865).

Grade l listed.

The Central Hall.

 

Wallington has been owned by the National Trust since 1942, after it was donated complete with the estate and farms by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, the first donation of its kind.

 

The estate was owned by the Fenwick family from 1475 until it was sold to the Blacketts. The hall house was rebuilt in 1688 around the ancient pele tower house for Sir William Blackett and was later substantially rebuilt again, in Palladian style, for Sir Walter Blackett by architect Daniel Garrett, before passing to the Trevelyan family in 1777. Charles Philips Trevelyan inherited the property from his father George Otto Trevelyan in 1928.

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