HEAD OFFICE/SHOWROOM OF DELCOR FURNITURE LIMITED

HEAD OFFICE/SHOWROOM OF DELCOR FURNITURE LIMITED, DOUBLE ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041320
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: HEAD OFFICE/SHOWROOM OF DELCOR FURNITURE LIMITED
Statutory Address:: HEAD OFFICE/SHOWROOM OF DELCOR FURNITURE LIMITED, DOUBLE ROW

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Date:: 1999-08-29
Reference:: IOE01/01233/31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041320
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: HEAD OFFICE/SHOWROOM OF DELCOR FURNITURE LIMITED
Statutory Address 1:: HEAD OFFICE/SHOWROOM OF DELCOR FURNITURE LIMITED, DOUBLE ROW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HEAD OFFICE/SHOWROOM OF DELCOR FURNITURE LIMITED, DOUBLE ROW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Seaton Valley
National Grid Reference:: NZ 29850 76160

Details

SEATON DELAVAL DOUBLE ROW NZ 27 NE (North side) 4/85 Head Office/ Showroom of Delcor Furniture Ltd. II House, c.1830. Tooled stone front with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings, other walls rubble; Welsh slate roof. T-plan. South elevation 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Plinth, 1st floor band, eaves cornice. 2 steps up to central renewed door under 8-pane overlight, in raised surround with Tuscan pilasters and moulded cornice. 20-pane sash windows, those on ground floor with moulded panels between sills and plinth. Hipped roof. Left return shows tripartite sash, and 20-pane sash above, in raised stone surrounds. Right return shows 16-pane sash in similar surround on 1st floor. Rear wing has hip-ended roof and reduced ridge stack.

Interior: moulded cornices, panelled shutters. Open-well stair in rear wing has stick balusters, moulded ramped and wreathed handrail, curtail step and carved tread ends. Similar stairhead balustrade.

Originally mine owner's house for the adjacent colliery (now removed), later the NCB pay offices for the area.

Listing NGR: NZ2985076160

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Legacy System number:: 236049
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.