Hill House
HILL HOUSE, COCK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121078
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- HILL HOUSE, COCK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121078
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL HOUSE, COCK 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:
- HILL HOUSE, COCK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Headlam
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 18364 17900
Details
NZ 11 NE HEADLAM COCK LANE (North side, off)
6/5 Hill House
GV II
House with attached cottage to north. Early C18 with alterations in early C19 and late C20. Roughcast and painted sandstone rubble with dressed quoins; four rebuilt brick stacks; low-pitched, two-span hipped roof of renewed pantiles. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys, 3 x 3 bays with 2-storey, single-bay cottage attached to left return. Mainly renewed sashes. Central, canted porch with 4-panel door and pantiled roof; fire-insurance mark and mid-wall, round-arched staircase window above porch; 24-pane sash to left and two 16-pane sashes to right. Garden front: central,Tuscan doorcase with panelled reveals and soffit, 4-panel, partly-glazed door and overlight; 16-pane sashes, slightly bowed on plan, to left and right on ground and first floors; 16-pane sash above doorway. Slightly- swept roof with plain, close eaves. Two rendered, lateral stacks rise from left and right returns and have ornamental, square-plan chimneypots.
Interior: mainly renewed but retains several 6-panel doors and window shutters; cut-string, open-well staircase of three flights has two stick balusters per tread supporting a wreathed and ramped handrail.
Detached barn to west of house not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ1836417900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111089
- 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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