Whitwell Grange House
WHITWELL GRANGE HOUSE, SHINCLIFFE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120758
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Whitwell Grange House
- Statutory Address:
- WHITWELL GRANGE HOUSE, SHINCLIFFE LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05547/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120758
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Whitwell Grange House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITWELL GRANGE HOUSE, SHINCLIFFE 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:
- WHITWELL GRANGE HOUSE, SHINCLIFFE LANE
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 30712 41002
Details
SHINCLIFFE SHINCLIFFE LANE NZ 34 SW and NZ 3041 (South side, off) 3/101 and 12/101 Whitwell Grange 18/2/83 House (formerly listed in Whitwell House C.P.) GV II
Farmhouse, now private house. Mid-late C18 with c.1820 addition. Coursed rubble; added range has incised render and stone dressings on front and returns. Welsh slate roofs with rebuilt brick chimney stacks. L-plan: original house at right-angles on left rear of added range. 2-storey, 3-bay c.1820 range has chamfered plinth and raised-and-chamfered quoins. 4-panel double doors in central doorcase. Margined sashes in raised surrounds with projecting sills. Low-pitched hipped roof with central rendered stack. Deep one-bay returns with identical fenestration. Lower 2-storey, 3-bay C18 farmhouse has roughly-squared quoins at left. Central late C19 gabled porch with replaced door. Blocked window above door and flanking margined sashes with wedge lintels and projecting sills. Roof with left end stack. Added one-storey outshut under pent roof on rear of original house. Interior: C18 house has fielded 6-panel doors and a late C18 cast-iron fire grate in bedroom; added house has 4-panel doors, panelled window shutters and a dogleg staircase with ornamental cast-iron balusters. L-plan range of former farmbuildings, now a house (The Mews), on left return of C18 farmhouse, is altered and not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ3071241002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109986
- 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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