The Woodlands
THE WOODLANDS, LARTINGTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121026
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Woodlands
- Statutory Address:
- THE WOODLANDS, LARTINGTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121026
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Woodlands
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WOODLANDS, LARTINGTON 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:
- THE WOODLANDS, LARTINGTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lartington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 01728 17787
Details
LARTINGTON LARTINGTON LANE NZ 0117 (North side, off) 31/100 The Woodlands II Former railway station comprising station master's house, waiting room, ticket office and wall enclosing toilets; now a private house. Dated 1859 on porch doorway for the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway Company. Dressed and ashlar sandstone, weather-boarded waiting room; Welsh slate roofs with bands of fish-scale tiles; stone chimney stacks. Linked linear plan: L-plan house with parallel rear wing; station buildings attached to left return of house. Tudor style.
2-storey house; 2 bays, the left projecting and cross-gabled; porch in re-entrant angle. Raised quoins and chamfered plinth. Porch: replaced door in pointed, chamfered surround with keystone dated 1859; 2-light window with shouldered heads to front. Main block has ovolo-moulded windows in raised surrounds with alternating jambs: cross window, with 2-light half-dormer above, to right; 5- light transomed bay window, with 2 light window above, to left. Steeply-pitched roofs have overhanging verges and eaves with bargeboards and exposed rafters. Conjoined and corniced ridge stacks with ornamental stone chimney pots.
One-storey, 4-bay waiting room, attached to left of house, has 3-light windows above weatherboarded dado. Hipped roof with overhanging, bracketed eaves.
One-storey, one-bay, pavilion-like ticket office, attached to left of waiting room, has pair of cross windows in projecting gabled bay. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with flat top. Corniced stack rises from rear wall. Short L-plan section of wall enclosing former toilets, attached to left, has chamfered coping.
Right return of house- stepped external chimney; return bay of rear wing has two 3-light windows and a low-pitched hipped roof.
Listing NGR: NZ0172817787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111269
- 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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