Shotley Park
SHOTLEY PARK, A694
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067547
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shotley Park
- Statutory Address:
- SHOTLEY PARK, A694
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067547
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shotley Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHOTLEY PARK, A694
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHOTLEY PARK, A694
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 09375 53361
Details
NZ 05 SE CONSETT A 694
(East side) Shotley Bridge 5/11 Shotley Park 1/10/86 II House, now childrens' home. 1842 for Jonathan Richardson, proprietor of Shotley Spa; late C19 and c.1903 additions for the Priestman family;dated on right return bowed projection, below window, with initials JLP and ZNP. Sandstone ashlar, with Welsh slate roof. Main house 2 storeys, 3 bays, with set-back 2-storey, 2-bay left extension. Set-back 2-storey right extensions of one and 3 bays, the latter further set back with tower between; lower additions in front of each extension. Main block: giant corner pilasters support entablature with blocking course; slightly-projecting central bay has 6-panel door and overlight in Tuscan porch with entablature and blocking course; C20 pent glass roof added on all 3 sides on glazed side panels. Early C20 bowed projection at left has 3 large windows with glazing bars and entablature; other windows sashes with fine glazing bars, flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills; first-floor band. Similar sashes in 2-bay left and one-bay right extensions, the left with early C20 conservatory on ground floor under pent roof, the right with one-storey, one-bay addition on ground floor flush with main front, and with bowed projection on right return; tower, to right and behind bowed projection, has pedimented second storey containing paired round-headed windows with impost string and glazing bars; to right the 3-bay addition has ground-floor central half-glazed door flanked by large window at left and sash at right, and 3 bowed oriels above with mullioned- and-transomed windows with glazing bars. Low-pitched roofs, that on main block with 2 low-segmental-headed dormers on left and right pitches and one on front, and 4 panelled, corniced central stone stacks linked by screens. Ridge chimneys on additions. Left return has wooden loggia. Interior not inspected. About to be vacated at time of survey. Sources: G. Neasham, The History and Biographies of West Durham, Durham 1883, 89; Rev. John Ryan, History of Shotley Spa, Sunderland 1841-51.
Listing NGR: NZ0937553361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438618
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryan, J, History of Shotley Spa, (1841)
Neasham, G, The History and Biographies of West Durham in The History and Biographies of West Durham, (1883)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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