Hoppy Acres and Constable Meadows
HOPPY ACRES AND CONSTABLE MEADOWS, THE VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120771
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hoppy Acres and Constable Meadows
- Statutory Address:
- HOPPY ACRES AND CONSTABLE MEADOWS, THE VILLAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120771
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hoppy Acres and Constable Meadows
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPPY ACRES AND CONSTABLE MEADOWS, THE VILLAGE
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:
- HOPPY ACRES AND CONSTABLE MEADOWS, THE VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brancepeth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22362 37924
Details
BRANCEPETH THE VILLAGE NZ 2237 (East side, off) 15/31 Hoppy Acres and 10/5/67 Constable Meadows (formerly listed as Brancepeth Rectory) II Former Rectory now 2 dwellings. Mid-late C18 rear wing (Constable Meadows) with c.1820 block on front (Hoppy Acres). Pebble-dashed rubble with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs and rebuilt brick chimney stacks. T-plan with wing at right-angles on rear. 3-storey front block: 3 bays, the narrow pedimented centre bay breaking forward. Raised quoins on centre bay and at ends. Central 3-panel double doors and radial fanlight under pedimented distyle Tuscan porch; 12- and 9-pane sashes above and small pediment with blocked oculus. Wide 3-storey bow at right has 3 curved sashes with stone sills on each floor: 12-pane on ground and first floors; 9-pane on top floor. Left bay blank. Wood eaves cornice and very low-pitched hipped roof. 2-bay left return has C19 canted bay window on ground floor, two 12-pane sashes on first floor and two 9-pane sashes above in raised stone surrounds. 2-storey, 3-bay rear wing has 6-panel door in stone architrave at right, 16-pane sashes with stone sills and steeply-pitched roof with left end and ridge stacks. Later single-storey additions on right return of main block and on rear of wing are not of special interest. Hoppy Acres is incorrectly shown on 0.S. map as Happy Acres.
Listing NGR: NZ2236237924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109912
- 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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