| Title: |
Wycliffe Hall, County Durham. Desk-Based Assessment and Preliminary Archaeological Survey |
| Number of Pages: |
133 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Report
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| Abstract: |
A detailed desk-based assessment and preliminary architectural and archaeological survey was undertaken of Wycliffe Hall to accompany a Listed Building Application for alterations to the hall. Based on this work, a suggested development for the hall could be summarised. The earliest house on the site, for which there were some surviving remains, may have comprised an open hall with a dual purpose stone-built storied cross wing at the east end, possibly dating from as early as the late 13th century. Another substantial building, possibly a kitchen block, existed to the north during the medieval period; it may have been free-standing or linked to the main house by an intermediate structure. During the 14th or 15th century, a three-storey/stage tower-like structure, perhaps built for defensive purposes, was added to the south end of the east cross wing. The west cross wing may have been a late 15th century addition, built to provide a better standard of private apartments. After the west cross wing was built, the east wing would have been given over wholly to service functions. The medieval house was remodelled to some extent during the 16th century, primarily to improve the quality and number of the private apartments and to expand the service facilitates. The east wing was extended in a number of stages, including a kitchen block and barrel vaulted cellars. The cellars beneath the east wing were initially connected to those beneath the west wing by an aboveground covered passage, with no below ground link. A first floor was inserted into the former open hall of the medieval house, necessitating the construction of a staircase tower on its north side, and an embattled forecourt was constructed on the south side. During the period c.1764 to c.1773, much of the early and post-medieval house was either demolished or altered as part of a remodelling undertaken by the third Marmaduke Tunstall (1743-1790). A first floor was added to the central part of the east wing to form a library. The north part of the east wing formed a chapel by the late 18th century and may have been built as early as 1758. In the early 1780s, the south part of the east wing was rebuilt on the site of an earlier structure, parts of which it incorporated, and the first floor housed a purpose-built museum. No major structural alterations were undertaken during the 19th century, although 20th century works had removed some evidence of earlier phases. [Au(abr)] |
| Author: |
Shaun Richardson
Ed Dennison
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| Publisher: |
Ed Dennison Archaeological Services Ltd
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| Year of Publication: |
2001
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| Locations: |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Wycliffe Hall |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Wycliffe Hall County Durham |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| 19th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Late 15th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 1758 (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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| 15th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Late 13th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 16th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Late 18th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 14th (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
2001
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: WYCLIFFE HALL
Study area: 14.9ha
Investigation type: Desk-based
District: Teesdale
Monument:
Ngr: NZ11941422
Parish: Hutton Magna
Postcode: DL129TS
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| Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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| Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |
