An exterior view of houses on the north side of the Green, seen from the west and showing Blackett House and Temperance Cottage in the background

Date:
circa 1955 - circa 1980
Location:
Blackett House and Temperance Cottage, Matfen, Northumberland
Reference:
UXC01/01/02/028/05
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

Blackett House is a two storey, four bay house with two bay section on the left and gabled cross wing on the right, with Temperance Cottage attached on the right. The house has a door in the right bay of the left section under a stone porch with gabled barge boards, and in the centre of the cross wing is a canted ground floor window. In the gable is a large painted Blackett family crest. Temperance Cottage has a single storey with gabled dormer and one bay, with the entrance on the left. The house was formerly an inn and then a temperance hotel. The house in the foreground has a single gabled bay fronting the street, with a gabled porch in the first bay of the left return.

Content

This is part of the Sub Series: UXC01/01/02 Series of 120mm negatives showing English architecture; within the Series: UXC01/01 Series of negatives showing English architecture; within the Collection: UXC01 Ursula Clark Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Clark, Ursula

Keywords

Uncertain Village, Stuart House, Uncertain House