English Heritage gives Belsay Hall a makeover, with new roof and revived gardens

“It is an amazing construction and should be more famous,” said English Heritage properties curator Mark Douglas in the vast, echoing cellars of a remarkable, Greek temple-style building – not in Athens but eight miles from Newcastle airport.

“Architectural students should be flocking here, they really should.”

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