Wallington Hall and Estate    1

Wallington Hall is situated six miles north west of Belsay and a mile off the A696 road north from Newcastle to Jedburgh. The nearest village is Cambo. This is the land of the border reivers.

The hall was built in 1688 by Sir Wlliam Blackett and remodelled between 1728 and 1777 by Daniel Garrett.The house passed to Sir Walter Trevelyan in 1853 and whose wife , Pauline, employed John Dobson to roof over the open courtyard and decorated the house with Pre-Raphaelite inspired frescos and paintings. John Ruskin became a great friend of Pauline and himself painted the group of oats and wild flowers on one of the pilasters in the courtyard, with Pauline painting some of the other pilasters. This now internal Hall is the artistic highlight of the whole house. Scenes from Northumberland’s legends and history adorn the walls, with the wealth of detail that the Pre-Raphaelites are famous for, painted by William Bell Scott.

The Wallington estate was laid out in the 18th century by Sir Walter Blackett, helped by William Joyce, Thomas Wright and Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, who went to school in the estate village, Cambo.  
The estate was made by  transforming many miles of Northumberland by road-making, building and planting between 1730 and 1770.

The last Trevelyan to own Wallington, Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, became a Socialist. In 1941 he gave the house, its contents and the estate to the National Trust subject to his life interest, and on his death in 1958 the Trust assumed control of the estate. Lady Trevelyan died in 1966.  

The house will remain closed during the 2003 season for vital repairs and conservation work.