MANOR HOUSE RUINS AND WALL, 70 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WHESSOE GRANGE FARMHOUSE

MANOR HOUSE RUINS AND WALL, 70 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WHESSOE GRANGE FARMHOUSE, BURTREE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121179
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE RUINS AND WALL, 70 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WHESSOE GRANGE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE RUINS AND WALL, 70 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WHESSOE GRANGE FARMHOUSE, BURTREE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121179
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE RUINS AND WALL, 70 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WHESSOE GRANGE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE RUINS AND WALL, 70 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WHESSOE GRANGE FARMHOUSE, BURTREE LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: MANOR HOUSE RUINS AND WALL, 70 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WHESSOE GRANGE FARMHOUSE, BURTREE LANE

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

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whessoe
National Grid Reference:: NZ 27719 18105

Details

NZ 21 NE WHESSOE BURTREE LANE (South side, off) 6/7 6/6/52 Manor House ruins and wall, 70 metres south-east of Whessoe Grange Farmhouse (Formerly listed as remains of Old Manor Buildings at Whessoe Grange Farm) II Manor House ruins and wall attached to south. Possibly a C12 chapel, converted into a house in early-mid C16 and later into a barn. Coursed and squared rubble. One storey with ruinous upper storey. West gable end has alternating quoins. Two 2-light, hollow-chamfered mullioned windows, blocked with hand-made bricks, on ground floor. Hollow-chamfered south jamb of a former 2-light window in ruinous gable. Roofless. Blocked breather and C20 doorway on south wall. Partly-collapsed east opening and later west doorway on north wall. Almost complete east gable end has roughly-shaped, alternating quoins. Partly- blocked doorway with later opening above. Gable has shaped footstones, moulded copings and ruinous apex. Interior. South wall: small, off-centre C16 stone fireplace with 4-centred arch; fragmentary wall painting, consisting of scattered crescent shapes, above; small, round-headed and deeply-splayed first-floor window to west. Tall, c.l5-metre long wall: probably C16; off-centre boarded door in opening with round-arched oak head; deeply-splayed window to south; remains of brick beehive oven to north. Lean-to additions on rear are not of special interest. Derelict and dangerous at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ2771918105

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Legacy System number:: 110919
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.