Witton Hall and wall attached
Witton Hall and wall attached, Church Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120696
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Witton Hall and wall attached
- Statutory Address:
- Witton Hall and wall attached, Church Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120696
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Witton Hall and wall attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- Witton Hall and wall attached, Church 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:
- Witton Hall and wall attached, Church Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Witton Gilbert
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ2350145385
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 6 September 2022 to amend the description, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
NZ 24 NW
1/50
WITTON GILBERT
CHURCH LANE (west side)
Witton Hall and wall attached.
(Formerly listed as Hospital (remains) at Witton Hall Farm)
28/2/52
GV
II*
Probably grange of late C12 leprosy hospital, built by Gilbert de la Ley; rebuilt 1399-1400. Now house. C18 and later additions. Wall attached to front. Render with painted plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Wall rubble, with some large stones, and quoins; coping obscured by vegetation at time of survey.
House L-plan. Main range facing south: two storeys, three bays; central door with three-over-three panels under four-pane overlight; three-light flanking windows have late C20 glazing under segmental heads. Three first floor sashes with glazing bars. Roof, hipped at right, has left end rendered chimney, and right chimney set slightly back from eaves of rear wing. Right return to street three storeys, three bays. First bay blank except for blocked high C14 window, with ball-flower ornament to hollow surround of two-centred-arched plate-tracery head, and fleur-de-lys ornament to quatrefoil between similarly-shaped heads of two lights; lower parts of window rendered over except for moulded surround. Two-light stone-mullioned window on top floor of second bay; third bay has paired sashes with glazing bars on ground and first floors, and C20 window with glazing bars on second floor, two storey, two bay extension to wing has similar windows, and pent one-storey, one-bay extension. Chimney on rear gable. Rear elevation shows two-bay outshut under catslide roof filling space between wing and main range.
High wall extends c.2 metres from right of house, containing boarded door, and returns, ramped down, along right side of garden for c.10 metres, ending in single quoin. Rubble extension not of interest.
Interior shows round-headed dripmould to ground floor at rear of third bay of main range, within rear wing; this opening blocked and plastered; other face, within main range, has bulge suggesting dividing mullion in opening. Rear first floor passage in main range has opening in wall to roof space. Roof shows massive kerbed principals, and arched tie-beams with shallow graduated slots, possibly decorative. Roof only partly inspected, and remainder of building interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: NZ2350145385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110041
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Snape, M, Priors Kitchen, ()
Surtees, R, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1840), 369
Surtees Society in Surtees Society, Vol. 99, (), 216
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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