East Denton Hall

HER Number:
1304

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
East Denton Hall

Place:
East Denton

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
House

Site Type: Specific:
Manor House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Denton Hall (or East Denton Hall) is the only remaining feature of the pre-modern settlement. A three-storey stone house, with west porch, and east staircase block. Notable for its fine mullioned windows. Over the porch is the date 1622, and the initials of Anthony and Dorothy Errington, the builders, Anthony having been granted the manor in 1601/2. The chapel was moved in 2020 from East Denton Hall, which had been the Bishop’s House since 1942 to West Avenue when the Bishop’s residence was moved. LISTED GRADE 1

Easting:
419860

Northing:
565660

Grid Reference:
NZ419860565660

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1304 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, East and West Denton and Sugley Townships, Northumberland County History, XIII, pp. 185-87, 191 W.A. Hoyle, 1887, Denton Hall, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, II (for 1885-86), pp. 42-45 N. Pevsner, rev, various, 1992, Northumberland, Buildings of England, 515-16 W.W. Tomlinson, 1894, Denton hall and its associations, pp. 103-116 A.D. Walton, 1977, Mrs Montagu - The Bluestocking of Mayfair and Denton Hall, Newcastle Geordie Life; Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan, 2020, Record of the Chapel at Bishop’s House, Chapel attributed to Robert Burke for East Denton Hall relocated to new Bishop’s House, 26 West Avenue, Gosforth