Kirkley Hall is a 17th-century historic country mansion and Grade II listed building in Northumberland, England.
[1] The estate is over 190 acres (0.77 km2) and adjoins the River Blyth at Kirkley, three miles north of Ponteland in the heart of the Northumberland countryside, which is now a Horticultural, Agricultural & Zoological training centre as part of Northumberland College The manor of Kirkley was granted to the de Eure family in 1267, and Sir William Eure was recorded as in occupation of a tower house there in 1415.
A stone lintel preserved over a doorway in the present house bears this date, and the initials and arms of Cuthbert Ogle and his wife, Dorothy Fenwick.
Substantial alterations were made to the structure in 1764 by Newton Ogle (1726–1804), Dean of Winchester, who also in 1788 erected an obelisk in the grounds commemorating the accession of William III and Mary II in 1689.
This has been expanded into a tourist attraction in its own right known as Kirkley Hall Zoological Gardens.