Bradley Hall (post medieval)
Bradley Hall (post medieval)
HER Number
              5464
          District
              Gateshead
          Site Name
              Bradley Hall (post medieval)
          Place
              Bradley
          Map Sheet
              NZ16SW
          Class
              Domestic
          Site Type: Broad
              House
          Site Type: Specific
              Country House
          General Period
              POST MEDIEVAL
          Specific Period
              Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
          Form of Evidence
              Extant Building
          Description
              The present hall was built around 1750 for John Simpson, who acquired the estate through marriage into the Anderson family. Simpson's granddaughter married Lord Ravensworth, for whom John Dobson altered the Hall in 1813 (he moved entrance to east side). A formal garden was laid out to the west of the hall in 1840s. The two gatehouses also date to this time. In 1894 John Bell Simpson acquired the estate. In the mid 20th century the walled garden became a commercial nursery. In 1980s the hall was subdivided into apartments and the stables and outbuildings converted into houses. LISTED GRADE 2*
          Easting
              412370
          Northing
              563360
          Grid Reference
              NZ412370563360
    Sources
              << HER 5464 >>   W. Greenwell, ed. 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, p. 90
A.M. Oliver, ed. 1929, Northumberland and Durham Deeds, Newcastle upon Tyne Record Series, VII, nos. 41, 42, 51
R. Surtees, 1820, History of…Durham, Vol. II, pp. 266-8
Gateshead Council, 1999, Bradley Park Conservation Area, Character Statement; Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special… Interest, 3/74
          A.M. Oliver, ed. 1929, Northumberland and Durham Deeds, Newcastle upon Tyne Record Series, VII, nos. 41, 42, 51
R. Surtees, 1820, History of…Durham, Vol. II, pp. 266-8
Gateshead Council, 1999, Bradley Park Conservation Area, Character Statement; Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special… Interest, 3/74