Corner House
CORNER HOUSE, 1 2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120753
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Corner House
- Statutory Address:
- CORNER HOUSE, 1 2, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120753
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Corner House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORNER HOUSE, 1 2, HIGH STREET
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:
- CORNER HOUSE, 1 2, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shincliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 28936 40670
Details
SHINCLIFFE HIGH STREET NZ 2840 (North side) 13/92 Nos. 1 and 2 (Corner House) II Farmhouse, now 2 private dwellings. Early-mid C18 with early C19 alterations. Rendered rubble ground floor with narrow hand-made brick, in irregular English garden wall bond, above. Welsh slate roofs with C19 brick chimney stacks. L-plan: main block with wing at right-angles on right rear. 3 storeys, 3 bays with plinth and flush rendered quoins. Central 4-panel door (to No. 1) and fanlight in open-pedimented door-case. C19 window openings with projecting stone sills flanked by blocked original openings: replaced sashes on ground floor, 16-pane sashes on first floor and smaller 9-pane sashes above. Eaves raised in C19 above projecting brick course. Steeply-pitched roof with transverse end stacks. Small blocked diamond-shaped opening, possibly a closet window, on first floor on right return. 3-storey, one-bay rear wing has C19 canted bay window and replaced door (to No. 2) on ground floor, replaced sashes above and a steeply-pitched roof with end stack. Altered 2-storey, 4-bay outshut on left rear of main block. Interior of No. 2 has early C19 open-well staircase with late C19 balusters and handrail. Former stable, now s house (No. 3), on rear of wing is altered and not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2893640670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109973
- 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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