Blenkinsop Hall is a privately owned castellated 19th century country house situated on the banks of the Tipalt Burn near Greenhead

Greenhead

-Placenames:*Greenhead, North Lanarkshire, Scotland*Greenhead, Northumberland, England*Greenhead, Scottish Borders, Scotland*Greenhead, Staffordshire, England*Greenhead College, a sixth form college in Huddersfield, England...

, Northumberland

Northumberland

Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...

. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

The earliest recorded area history of this locale is from the Roman occupation and the construction of Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall was a defensive fortification in Roman Britain. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the first of two fortifications built across Great Britain, the second being the Antonine Wall, lesser known of the two because its physical remains are less evident today.The...

, some of whose remains are extant in the vicinity.

A house existed on the site, then known as Dryburnhaugh, in the 17th century, and was owned by the ancient Blenkinsop family of nearby Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop Castle

Blenkinsopp Castle is a fire-damaged, partly demolished 19th-century country mansion incorporating the ruinous remains of a 14th-century tower house located above the Tipalt Burn approximately one mile from Greenhead, Northumberland, England...

 and Bellister

Bellister Castle

Bellister Castle is a National Trust owned castellated 19th century mansion house attached to the ruinous remains of a 14th century tower house, situated near Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.The property stands on a mound which...

 castles.

The estates passed to the Coulson family by the 1727 marriage of the Blenkinsop heiress

Beneficiary

A beneficiary in the broadest sense is a natural person or other legal entity who receives money or other benefits from a benefactor. For example: The beneficiary of a life insurance policy, is the person who receives the payment of the amount of insurance after the death of the insured...

 to William Coulson. Colonel John Blenkinsop Coulson built the present two-storeyed, five-bayed house on the site in about 1800, and the property was extended and improved later in the 19th century with the assistance of architect John Dobson

John Dobson (architect)

John Dobson was a 19th-century English architect in the neoclassical tradition. He became the most noted architect in the North of England. Churches and houses by him dot the North East - Nunnykirk Hall, Meldon Park, Mitford Hall, Lilburn Tower, St John the Baptist Church in Otterburn,...

.

Edward Joicey purchased all the Blenkinsop estates including the Hall in about 1876.