Wallington

Wallington is a William and Mary house of c.1688 that was developed in 1738-46 by Daniel Garrett for Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, a local landowner and philanthropist. A protégé of both Lord Burlington and Sir Thomas Robinson, Garrett reroofed the original house, refenestrated it, rebuilt part of it and remodelled the whole of the interior, creating, in collaboration with the stuccadore Pietro Lafrancini, a series of striking rococo set pieces. Equally striking amidst this 18th-century work is a Ruskinian central living hall designed in 1853-4 by John Dobson of Newcastle for the botanist, geologist and advocate of temperance, Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan. It has a coved ceiling and a balustrade and is painted with flowers and scenes from Northumbrian history by William Bell Scott, Lady Trevelyan and John Ruskin himself.

Wallington, Northumberland

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A collection of family portraits (including works by Hudson, Reynolds, Romney and one of Susanna Trevelyn painted in part by Gainsborough and altered, reputedly by Reynolds, two watercolours by Turner; 18th and 19th century furniture, including pieces by Chippendale and Sheraton; early 18th century needlework panels; 18th century English porcelain including rare Bow figures; and a cabinet of curiosities, with stuffed birds, antiquities, fossils and geological specimens. Also a good collection of books from an early collection - including a substantial part of Lord Macaulay's library, with many annotated books - the Wallington library dates mainly from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the working collection of the Trevelyans, a remarkable family of radical liberal landowners. In addition to the classical books of George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928), local books, left-leaning politics can be found; many are annotated. There are several spectacular individual books, including colour plate books and inscribed and association copies.

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