{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox building |name = Capheaton Hall |location = Northumberland, England |pushpin_map = United Kingdom Northumberland |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Northumberland |image= West Lodge to Capheaton Hall (geograph 2208605).jpg |caption = West Lodge to Capheaton Hall |logo_caption = |grid_name = OS grid |grid_position = {{gbmappingsmall|NZ038804}} |coordinates = {{Coord|55.119|-1.941|display=inline,title}} }} '''Capheaton Hall''', near Wallington, Northumberland, is an English country house, the seat of the Swinburne Baronets and a childhood home of the poet Algernon Swinburne. <ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Swinburne, Algernon Charles |volume= 26 |last= Gosse |first= Edmund William |author-link= Edmund William Gosse| pages = 234–235|short = 1}}</ref> It counts among the principal gentry seats of Northumberland.<ref>[http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Gaz1868.html ''National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland'', 1868.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505010924/http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Gaz1868.html |date=2013-05-05 }}</ref> It is a Grade I listed building.
The house, which was built for Sir John Swinburne, 1st Baronet in 1667-68<ref>Dated contract, noted in Colvin, sv. "Robert Trollope".</ref> by Robert Trollope of Newcastle, is a provincial essay in Baroque, of local stone with giant pilasters on high bases supporting sections of entablature dividing the main front into a wide central bay and flanking bays, under a sloping roof with vernacular flat-footed dormers. The estate was improved with a model farm in Gothic taste, designed by Daniel Garrett for Sir John Swinburne, ca 1746, one of the earliest examples of the Gothic Revival. The north front was rebuilt for Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet in 1789-90 by a local architect, William Newton.
The house stands in rolling parkland in the manner of Capability Brown. The naturalistic setting of Sir Edward's Lake south of the house was designated a Site of Nature Conservation Importance in 1983 for the wintering and breeding wildfowl it harbours, as well as the fen and carr vegetation that has developed round its margins.
The linear estate village of Capheaton (population 50), built as a planned model village in the late eighteenth century, is sited on a ridge west of the Hall.
The Capheaton archives are at the Northumberland Record Office.
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==References== *Howard Colvin, ''A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840,'' 3rd ed. 1995 *{{NHLE|num=1154285 |desc=Capheaton Hall |accessdate=30 October 2019}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20010413023058/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/8805/sirjohn.html The Swinburn family of Capheaton Hall] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20061011195527/http://cmlocalplan.co.uk/aspcode/gettext.asp?chapter=13 Capheaton Estate Village] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928003512/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N10481 Keys to the Past]
Category:Country houses in Northumberland Category:Grade I listed buildings in Northumberland Category:1668 establishments in England