Bowes Hall
BOWES HALL, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121071
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bowes Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BOWES HALL, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121071
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bowes Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWES HALL, 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:
- BOWES HALL, 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:
- NY 99637 13540
Details
BOWES THE STREET NY 9913 (North side, off) 33/14 Bowes Hall 12/1/67 II GV Large house. Early and later C17; refronted and extended in early-mid C18. Squared rubble and ashlar dressings. Graduated green slate roof and stone chimney stacks. Double-depth plan with short 2-storey wing to rear of right return.
3-storey, 6-bay front (2 right end bays and top storey probably added in C18). Low plinth and raised-and-chamfered quoins. Replaced 6-panel door in pedimented, bolection-moulded doorcase in third bay. Windows in moulded surrounds: 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors; smaller 9-pane sashes above. Stone eaves cornice. Roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers. Corniced end stacks and 2 ridge stacks. Right return: central Dutch door in flush surround; scattered, mainly C19 sashes. Front half of left return projects beyond rear half. Mid- wall Venetian stair window, with thick glazing bars, to rear.
Interior. Stone-flagged entrance hall has Roman Doric screen. Large bolection- moulded stone chimneypieces in drawing room and first-floor front bedroom. Wide segmental fireplace arch in kitchen. Panelled sitting room with dado rail and cornice. Several 6-panel doors. Spacious 2-flight stone staircase with narrow open well and replaced balusters. Mutilated, moulded staircase-hall ceiling. 2-flight fragment of attic staircase with closed-string, barley-sugar balusters and a moulded handrail.
Late C20 garage to rear of right return is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NY9963713540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111176
- 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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