Sockburn Hall
SOCKBURN HALL, SOCKBURN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1116156
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sockburn Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SOCKBURN HALL, SOCKBURN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1116156
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sockburn Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOCKBURN HALL, SOCKBURN LANE
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:
- SOCKBURN HALL, SOCKBURN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Neasham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 34966 07189
Details
SOCKBURN SOCKBURN LANE NZ 3407 (East side)
19/38 Sockburn Hall 20/3/67 II*
Country house. Dated 1834 on carved scroll above doorway. Possibly by Sir Edward Blackett for his younger brother Henry Collingwood Blackett. Ashlar sandstone; graduated stone-tiled roofs with ashlar chimney stacks. Square- plan main block with 2 parallel wings on left return. Jacobean style.
2 storeys, plus attics. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance front. Projecting outer bays have shaped gables. Central 4-centred arch to set-back door with 3-pane side lights. Blackett arms above and dated scrolls in spandrels. Ovolo- moulded mullioned-and-transomed windows in double-chamfered surrounds. Continuous hoodmould on ground floor stepped up over 4-light windows in outer bays and over centrepiece. 3-light first-floor windows, under dripmoulds in outer bays. Small 2-light mullioned windows in gables. Pierced parapet above centre bay. Small central dormer with shaped gable. Steeply-pitched 2-span roof with shaped gables on left return. Transverse left end and 2 ridge chimneys, each with 3 conjoined octagonal stacks. 2-storey bay and 2 parallel single-storey, 3-bay wings on left return. Front wing has 2-panel door, two 4-light windows, steeply-pitched roof and a large 2-stage chimney, with 4 conjoined stacks, on ridge. 3-bay right return has projecting square 2-storey outer bays, with 5-light windows and pierced parapets, under shaped gables with 2-light attic windows. Central 3-light window on first floor. Continuous hoodmould stepped up over ground-floor windows. Parapet above continuous string. 3-bay rear with similar features.
Interior not seen but contains Jacobean-style fittings; one room said to be panelled with dismantled C15 to C18 dower chests.
Listing NGR: NZ3496607189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350497
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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