ELM COURT PIERREMONT, DENTDALE EAST, DENTDALE WEST, TOWER HOUSE, PIERREMENT HALL.

ELM COURT PIERREMONT, DENTDALE EAST, DENTDALE WEST, TOWER HOUSE, PIERREMENT HALL., TOWER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121263
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: ELM COURT PIERREMONT, DENTDALE EAST, DENTDALE WEST, TOWER HOUSE, PIERREMENT HALL.
Statutory Address:: ELM COURT PIERREMONT, DENTDALE EAST, DENTDALE WEST, TOWER HOUSE, PIERREMENT HALL., TOWER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121263
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: ELM COURT PIERREMONT, DENTDALE EAST, DENTDALE WEST, TOWER HOUSE, PIERREMENT HALL.
Statutory Address 1:: ELM COURT PIERREMONT, DENTDALE EAST, DENTDALE WEST, TOWER HOUSE, PIERREMENT HALL., TOWER ROAD

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ELM COURT PIERREMONT, DENTDALE EAST, DENTDALE WEST, TOWER HOUSE, PIERREMENT HALL., TOWER ROAD

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District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 27927 15241

Details

TOWER ROAD 1. (West Side) 5195 Elm Court Pierremont, Dentdale East, Tower House, Pierremont Hall. NZ 2715 1/392

II

2. Formerly Pierremont, home of Henry Pease. Mid-late C19 picturesque group which has been subdivided from one original dwelling. Collegiate Gothic in style, of coursed freestone With ashlar dressings. Mainly of 2 storeys, with many gables. Five-bay south front has central projecting battlemented square tower whose 4 angle turrets have hat-shaped caps; and an oriel with perpendicular tracery. Other windows are stone mullioned and transomed, some Tudor arched with dripmoulds; and some have glazing with margin lights. Elm Court has a range of colonnades, with polished granite columns (some paired) and elliptical arches, stretching south-eastwards and ending in an open grotto or artifical ruin with artfully disposed rough rocks holding foliage and having mirrors set in the walls. This addition was built in 1873, architect Sir A Waterhouse. Pierremont Hall has an earlier plainer north range, the original house before the Gothic additions.

Listing NGR: NZ2792715241

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Legacy System number:: 110721
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.