page_title: Belsay Hall
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Belsay Hall / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Belsay Hall - the Yew Garden. Looks very different in high summer compared with February (2009) - see Oliver Dixon's photo 1172218.
context_page_description: Belsay Hall is a Regency style country house located at Belsay, Northumberland. It is regarded as the first British country house to be built entirely in the new Greek revival style. It is a Grade I listed building. It was built to supersede Belsay Castle and its adjoining earlier hall just a few hundred yards away, and is part of the same estate.
context_section_description: The house was built between 1810 and 1817 for Sir Charles Monck (then of Belsay Castle close by) to his own design, possibly assisted by architect John Dobson.  It is built in ashlar with a Lakeland slate roof in the Greek Doric style.
  The house measures 100 feet (30 m) square, with a lower kitchen wing attached to the north side. Externally the house appears to have two stories, although there is an additional storey hidden within the roof space to provide servant accommodation.
  This service side of the house was badly affected by dry rot in the 1970s and, following remedial work, it has been left as a weather-proof shell to illustrate how the house was built. The hall was the residence of the Middleton family until 1962.
caption: The Yew Garden, Belsay Hall.
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