Nunwick Hall

Nunwick Hall
Nunwick Hall Nunwick Hall shown within Northumberland
OS grid reference	NY879741
Coordinates	55°03′43″N 2°11′28″W / 55.062°N 2.191°W / 55.062; -2.191Coordinates: 55°03′43″N 2°11′28″W / 55.062°N 2.191°W / 55.062; -2.191
List of places UK England Northumberland

Nunwick Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house near Simonburn, Northumberland in North East England. The estate has been the home of the Allgood family since the 17th century. The house is a Grade II* listed building but is not open to the public.

In 1738 Lancelot Allgood married his cousin Jane Allgood, who was heiress to the Nunwick estate, and they built the present three-storey five-bayed house to a Georgian style design by architect Daniel Garrett.

Improvements made in 1829 by architect Ignatius Bonomi included a new entrance porch and east wing.

The grounds were laid out in 1760 and are protected as a Registered Historic Park and as a Grade II listed building.

The ruinous Simonburn Castle to the west was partly rebuilt as a Gothick eye-catcher or folly in 1766, to be seen from Nunwick Hall; it has since collapsed.

Members of the Allgood family have served as High Sheriff of Northumberland:

(1) Lancelot Allgood (d. 1652) (q.v.);

(2) George Allgood (d. 1669) (q.v.);

(3) Richard Allgood;

(4) Jane Allgood; married [forename unknown] Briggs;

(5) Margaret Allgood; married [forename unknown] Dodd.

His date of death is unknown.

(1) Alice Allgood (b. 1649); baptised 24 November 1669; married 29 May 1669, Sampson Hudspeth of Corbridge (Northbld) and had issue two sons and two daughters;

(2) Lancelot Allgood (1651–55), baptised 12 March 1651; died young and was buried at Hexham, 9 December 1655;

(3) Robert Allgood (b. 1653) (q.v.);

(4) Margaret Allgood; married [forename unknown] Smith of Seghill and had issue a son, George (d. 1749);

(5) Lancelot Allgood (b. 1657), baptised 26 August 1657; perhaps died 1707;

(6) George Allgood (1659-1727) (q.v.);

(7) Thomas Allgood (1662-1735), baptised 29 January 1661/2; educated at Inner Temple (admitted 1687; called to bar, 1692); barrister-at-law; buried at Hexham, 30 January 1735;