Tursdale House

TURSDALE HOUSE, HETT MILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120776
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Tursdale House
Statutory Address:
TURSDALE HOUSE, HETT MILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120776
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Tursdale House
Statutory Address 1:
TURSDALE HOUSE, HETT MILL

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TURSDALE HOUSE, HETT MILL

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

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cassop-cum-Quarrington
National Grid Reference:
NZ 29288 37062

Details

CASSOP-CUM-QUARRINGTON HETT MILL NZ 23 NE (North side, off) 6/45 Tursdale House II

Farmhouse. C17, greatly altered in C19 and C20. Coursed sandstone rubble; Welsh slate roof and rebuilt brick chimney stacks. Altered hearth-passage plan. 2 storeys, 5 bays with roughly-squared alternating quoins. Partly- glazed 4-panel door and narrow 4-pane overlight in rendered surround to left of centre. Replaced sashes, paired on ground floor, in C19 and C20 openings, some with concrete sills and lintels. Eaves raised in C19. Steeply-pitched roof with reverse-stepped gables. End and ridge stacks. Stepped external chimneys on both returns; upper section of right chimney rebuilt in brick. Added one-storey lean-to on rear. Interior refitted in late C19-early C20. C20 farmbuilding on right and C20 2-storey wing on rear are not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ2928837062

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
109926
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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