Dotheboys Hall and Former Coach House
DOTHEBOYS HALL AND FORMER COACH HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121040
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Dotheboys Hall and Former Coach House
- Statutory Address:
- DOTHEBOYS HALL AND FORMER COACH HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121040
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dotheboys Hall and Former Coach House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOTHEBOYS HALL AND FORMER COACH HOUSE, THE 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:
- DOTHEBOYS HALL AND FORMER COACH HOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bowes
- National Grid Reference:
- NY9900713540
Details
NY 91 SE and NY 9913
19/34 and 33/34
12/1/67
BOWES
THE STREET
(South side)
Dotheboys Hall and
former coach-house
(Formerly listed as
Dotheboys Hall)
II
GV
Large house formerly the Bowes Academy, now divided into 7 flats. Late C18-
early C19 house with late C20 alterations; late C19 coach-house. Dressed
sandstone. Graduated green slate roofs and stone chimney stacks. L-plan main
block (garden front and right return wing) with coach-house attached to left of
garden front and service wing attached at right-angles to rear of right return
wing.
2-storey, irregular 7-bay garden front with flush quoins. Replaced door and
radial fanlight in moulded round-arched surround in bay 6; flanking late C19
canted bay windows. Four 2-pane sashes in moulded surrounds with projecting
sills to left. 2-pane sashes above in identical surrounds. Low-pitched hipped
roof. 3 ridge stacks with top bands.
Coach-house: one-storey, 2-bay centre with blocked round arches and an
embattled parapet with pyramidal coping stones; flanking taller square-plan
towers break forward and have pyramidal roofs with ball finials.
2-storey, irregular 7-bay right return wing has scattered 4-pane sashes; pair
of rusticated coach arches, with late C20 glazing, towards rear. Low-pitched
roof hipped at rear.
One-storey service wing has replaced windows and a low-pitched roof.
Dotheboys Hall, formerly the Bowes Academy, a private school for 200 boys run
by William Shaw, was visited by Charles Dickens on February 2nd, 1838. Outraged
by its disgraceful conditions Dickens, in his novel Nicholas Nickleby, exposed
the Academy and its principal (as Wackford Squeers) thereby creating a public
outcry that forced many such schools, including the Bowes Academy, to close
down.
Listed for historical interest.
(John Manning, Dickens on Education, 1959).
Listing NGR: NY9900713540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111196
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Manning, J, Dickens on Education, (1959)
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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