Hedgeley Hall

{{Short description|Country house in Northumberland, England}}

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File:Gateway to Hedgeley Hall.jpg

Hedgeley Hall is a privately owned late 18th-century country house situated near Powburn, Northumberland, {{convert|8|mi|km}} northwest of Alnwick.{{cite book|last1=Bartholomew|first1=John George|title=The Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles|date=1904|publisher=G. Newnes, limited|page=[https://archive.org/details/surveygazetteero00bartuoft/page/378 378]|url=https://archive.org/details/surveygazetteero00bartuoft|quote=seats Hedgeley Hall.|accessdate=21 July 2017|language=en}} It is a Grade II listed building.

Hedgeley Hall lies in the former parish of Hedgeley. In January 1463/4, during the War of the Roses, Sir Ralph Percy was slain there in a skirmish between the Lancastrians and Yorkists on Hedgeley Moor.{{cite book|last1=Durham|first1=F. Hermia|title=English History Illustrated from Original Sources: 1399-1485|date=1902|publisher=A. and C. Black|page=[https://archive.org/details/englishhistoryil03warnuoft/page/130 130]|url=https://archive.org/details/englishhistoryil03warnuoft|accessdate=21 July 2017|language=en}}

File:Photo of Hedgeley in the 18th and 19th Centuries the garden side looking towards the Cheviots.jpg

The estate at Hedgeley was purchased by Ralph Carr in 1786 and he substantially rebuilt the earlier house which had stood on the site.{{cite book|last1=Chessell|first1=Antony|title=Breamish and Till: From Source to Tweed|date=2014|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=9781291589382|pages=71–72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ODHuBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|accessdate=21 July 2017|language=en}}

Ralph's son, John Carr of Hedgeley and Dunston Hill, Gateshead, who was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1813, married Hannah Ellison, sister of Cuthbert Ellison of Hebburn Hall. Their son Ralph Carr (High Sheriff in 1845) inherited the Hebburn estates from his cousin, Colonel Cuthbert Ellison, in 1870. In 1871, complying with a request from the colonel, he was granted royal permission to add the name Ellison to his own surname.

Hedgeley Hall was remodelled in the 19th century when rear wings were added, and was significantly extended and improved by Colonel Ralph Henry Carr-Ellison with the assistance of architect George Reavell between 1910 and 1914. The interior was enhanced by the transfer of doors and fireplaces from Dunston Hill and Hebburn Hall.

The house and working estate remain in the ownership of the Carr-Ellison family.{{cite news|title=Sir Ralph Carr-Ellison - obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11116641/Sir-Ralph-Carr-Ellison-obituary.html|accessdate=21 July 2017|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=23 September 2014|language=en}}