Documentary records for Burneside Hall extend to 1290, when a property was owned on the site by Gilbert Burneshead, the Under-Sheriff of Westmorland.

[1] Richard Bellingham, a member of an influential Northumberland family, married Burneshead's daughter, acquiring the site.

[2] Burneside Hall in its current form was originally built in the second half of the 14th century by the Bellingham family.

[6] A two-storey gatehouse at the front of the property was built in the late-16th or 17th century, with a relatively substantial barmkin wall, 6 feet (2 metres) thick in places, erected around it.

[7] The original open hall was converted into smaller rooms in the 17th century, and additional windows added.