Charlton Hall
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Charlton Hall

A Grade II listed 18th-century country house on a 150-acre estate just off the A1, with quirky interiors, landscaped gardens and cabins and yurts tucked around the grounds.

Address:

Charlton Hall Estate, Chathill, Northumberland, NE67 5DZ
Call:
01665 579173
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Good to Know

Charlton Hall is a Grade II-listed country house on a private 150-acre estate near Chathill, between Alnwick and the coast at Beadnell. Its hotel, The Tempus, opened in 2023 in restored early-1800s farm buildings and new builds, with rooms across cottages, the hotel, yurts and lakeside cabins added in 2025.

Tom's Notebook

Best for: A special-occasion stay, Sunday roast or afternoon tea.

Look and feel: Deliberately bold — disco balls over the bar, fuchsia-print sofas, emerald booths and big topiaries.

Good to know: Free parking on site. It's also a busy wedding venue, so check ahead at weekends.

On Our List

Charlton Hall is only a few miles from us, and it kept turning up in searches around Heather & Sand, so we did some digging.

Why people seem to like it

The Thorp family lived here from 1878 until 2017, and the estate has since been reinvented with a lot of confidence. Guests love the playful interiors, and the Sunday roast and afternoon tea get particularly warm reviews.

Not every visit is perfect

The bold styling is part of the fun, but it won't be to everyone's taste — and with weddings most weekends, it may not always be the quiet country retreat some people expect.

So, would we go?

Yes — if only to see the disco balls for ourselves. A roast or afternoon tea here after a morning on Beadnell beach sounds like a very good day.

But this isn't our review — not yet. When we've been, we'll replace it with what we found ourselves.

Heather & Sand verdict: On Our List. A confident, characterful country estate hotel with highly rated food. Not a traditional country house, but that seems to be exactly the point.

A Little Note From Heather & Sand

We haven't quite made it here ourselves yet, but it's on our list!

We're working our way around Northumberland, personally visiting and reviewing as many of the places featured in our Listed section as we can. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

In the meantime, we do our homework. Before adding somewhere to Heather & Sand, we research it, look at what other visitors have to say and check that it has a good reputation. If the feedback isn't encouraging, it generally doesn't make our list.

Of course, a little online research is no substitute for muddy boots, a decent coffee and seeing somewhere for ourselves. So until we've visited, we'll leave the personal review to one side.

A little about us...

Heather & Sand is our little corner of Northumberland — a collection of places, stories, walks and discoveries from a county we love.

Through our Journal, Guide and Listed pages, we hope to help you discover somewhere new, revisit an old favourite or simply enjoy a little Northumberland from wherever you happen to be.

Tom, Lucy & the Heather & Sand crew.

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