RAMSIDE HALL

RAMSIDE HALL, A690

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120723
Date first listed:: 10-May-1967
List Entry Name:: RAMSIDE HALL
Statutory Address:: RAMSIDE HALL, A690

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120723
Date first listed:: 10-May-1967
List Entry Name:: RAMSIDE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: RAMSIDE HALL, A690

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:: RAMSIDE HALL, A690

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Belmont
National Grid Reference:: NZ 31276 44576

Details

BELMONT A 690 NZ 34 SW (East side) 7/10 Ramside Hall 10/5/67 II

House, now hotel. Circa 1820 for Pemberton family, incorporating earlier house. Pebbledashed render with some brick revealed on parapets; ashlar dressings; roof not visible. Gothic style. 2 storeys, 5 bays with one-storey, one-bay right and left extensions, set-back 2-storey, 5-bay left wing and set- back 3-storey, 1-bay right wing, of 2-storey height. Gothic style. Central 2-storey, 3-bay half-octagonal projection has 4 octagonal pilasters and battlemented parapet. 3 wide Tudor-arched openings contain double doors with side and overlights. Similar heads to 12-pane sashes in returns and 16-pane sashes over doors, all with Tudor-arched top lights. Similar glazing in tripartite ground-floor and 12-pane first-floor sashes in first bay, and 3-light window at top of right extension. Square tower at left end, blank narrow left extension, higher square tower at right end,with corbelled parapet and central projection,all have flat stone copings. Plain battlements over low right extension. Set-back left wing mostly obscured by front additions but corbelled parapet of round rear tower can be seen. Rear elevation 2 storeys, 10 bays, in more regular style: square left corner tower, and round towers projecting from fifth bay and right end bay. Dripmould over Tudor- arched door in central tower, with blind cross arrow slit above flanked by sashes; plainer door of similar shape in right end, both half-glazed; sashes in same style as those of front, except for 2 French windows to left of centre. Lower left embattled projection conceals part of left tower, and is obscured by c.1980 conservatory. Circa 1920 conservatory in front of 5 right bays. Interior: thicker walls and lower ceilings suggest 3-storey earlier house in right bay, with c.l.7-metres thick rear wall, possibly former chimney. In this bay, left wall has dripmould over Tudor-arched door with panelled soffit, flanked by narrow Gothic lights (probably side entrance to early C19 house) and dentilled stucco ceiling cornice in small square hall to which this door gave access. Main entrance leads to full-height open hall with curved stair at left leading to 3-sided gallery; ceiling removed to reveal double-ridge king-post roof of C19 character. 6-panel doors, some with panelled reveals, in fluted architraves with corner paterae.

Listing NGR: NZ3127644576

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Legacy System number:: 109999
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.