Polam Hall
Polam Hall, Grange Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121294
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Polam Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Polam Hall, Grange Road
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00757/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121294
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Polam Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Polam Hall, Grange Road
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:
- Polam Hall, Grange Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ2851713804
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 July 2023 to update the description and to reformat the text to current standards
NZ 2813
11/65
GRANGE ROAD (East Side)
Polam Hall
II
Second quarter of C19 villa, formerly the residence of Jonathan Backhouse the banker, a girls' school at time of listing. Pinkish brick with stone eaves cornice and blocking course, first floor band and plinth. Low pitched hipped slate roof with end and ridge stacks. Flat gauged brick arches and stone cills to recessed sash windows with glazing bars.
Entrance front of two storeys, three windows, very large proportions. Stone central section holds a porch in antis with square columns. Later C19 square bay at right, early C20 stuccoed half-octagonal projection at left. Four-bay left return is plain except for engraved stone panels below ground floor windows. Rear elevation has a top half-storey, blank but for a central small window. Secondary entrance front has a door with radial fanlight in Tuscan doorcase with open segmental pediment.
Various later C19 extensions to north.
Listing NGR: NZ2851713804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110600
- 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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