Low Walworth Hall

LOW WALWORTH HALL, B6279

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121168
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Low Walworth Hall
Statutory Address:
LOW WALWORTH HALL, B6279

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121168
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Low Walworth Hall
Statutory Address 1:
LOW WALWORTH HALL, B6279

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

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:
LOW WALWORTH HALL, B6279

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

District:
Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Walworth
National Grid Reference:
NZ 23957 17648

Details

NZ 21 NW WALWORTH B6279 (North side, off) 5/130 Low Walworth Hall 6/6/52 GV II Large house. Late C17-early C18 with C19 additions and alterations. Partly- rendered coursed rubble; mid C19 rear addition dressed stone. Welsh slate roofs and brick chimney stacks. Early C18 main block with late C17 rear wing and C19 additions on left and left rear. Garden front. 2-storey main block of 2 builds: 5 bays, and 2-bay section to right of straight joint. 5-bay section roughly shaped quoins; central 6-panel door in stone architrave with frieze and cornice; replaced sashes with wedge lintels and projecting sills; blocked windows in end bays. 2-bay section: low plinth and roughly-shaped quoins at right; similar sashes. Flat-coped parapet, above band, with end ball finials. Steeply-pitched roof with coped gables. Rebuilt end and ridge stacks. Set-back 2-storey bay on right, altered in C20, has replaced sash, similar parapet with ball finial and steeply-pitched roof with coped right gable. Slightly-lower, 2-storey, 2-bay addition on left of main block, possibly former barn: 2 large mid-wall replaced sashes with wedge lintels and projecting sills; blocked oval opening above, in header brick surround, possibly former pitching eye. Flat-coped parapet with ball finial at left. Steeply-pitched roof with coped left gable. Old brick external chimney on left return. 2-storey gabled wing on rear of main block has two blocked, 2-light mullioned windows. L-plan mid C19 wing, on right return of gabled wing, with sashes. Interior: 2 ground-floor rooms with C18 cornices; 2-flight,dogleg staircase with thin turned balusters and ramped square-section handrail. Lean-to garage on left return and stone porch to left of gabled rear wing are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ2395717648

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Legacy System number:
110902
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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