Woolsington Hall
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Woolsington Hall (pre-fire)
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| Location | Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Coordinates | 55°1′55.41″N 1°41′20.68″W / 55.0320583°N 1.6890778°WCoordinates: 55°1′55.41″N 1°41′20.68″W / 55.0320583°N 1.6890778°W |
| Built | Third quarter 17th century with late 18th century and early 19th century wings |
| Governing body | Privately owned |
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Listed Building – Grade II*
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| Official name: Woolsington Hall and wall attached to North West | |
| Designated | 27 August 1952 |
| Reference no. | 1123737 |
 Location of Woolsington Hall in Tyne and Wear
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Woolsington Hall is a Grade II* listed country house in a 92-acre (37 ha) estate, in the village of Woolsington, in the City of Newcastle, England, north-west of Newcastle city centre. In addition to the hall, the stables, coach house, orangery, walled garden and east wing are Grade II listed.
The hall is not habitable and requires full restoration. It has been on English Heritage's Heritage at Risk register since 2002.
The hall is built of stone, with painted ashlar dressings and edged by quoins. The roof is made of slate from the Lake district with stone gables. The house is 2 storeys high, divided into 3 bays and a single bay wing.
Woolsington Hall was the seat of the Bell family, landowners in Dinnington. In 1828 Matthew Bell, MP for Northumberland and Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland was listed as living at the hall. All four battalions of the 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade camped briefly at Woolsington Hall in May 1915. Conditions were so bad at Woolsington Hall that many soldiers who lived locally went home rather than stay there. The brigade trained in trench fighting at nearby Ponteland, and paraded through Newcastle city centre before departing from Woolsington for Salisbury Plain.
Woolsington Hall was bought by businessman Sir John Hall's Cameron Hall Developments for £1.32 million in 1994. Since 1994 Hall has proposed several developments of the Woolsington site including a football academy for Newcastle United, which was later built in Little Benton. A luxury hotel and golf course was later planned for the Woolsington Hall estate. Hall was threatened with legal action by Newcastle City Council in 2005 unless he carried out repairs to Woolsington Hall.
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