WESTERN LODGE AND GREY LODGE

WESTERN LODGE AND GREY LODGE, WHITESMOCKS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121345
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: WESTERN LODGE AND GREY LODGE
Statutory Address:: WESTERN LODGE AND GREY LODGE, WHITESMOCKS

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Date:: 2001-05-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121345
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: WESTERN LODGE AND GREY LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: WESTERN LODGE AND GREY LODGE, WHITESMOCKS

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WESTERN LODGE AND GREY LODGE, WHITESMOCKS

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: City of Durham
National Grid Reference:: NZ 26057 43580

Details

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE WHITESMOCKS NZ 24 SE (East side)

4/471 Western Lodge and Grey Lodge

GV II

Villa, now 2 separate houses. Early C19 incorporating early C18 house in rear wing. Incised stucco with plinth and painted ashlar dressings; rear wall of wing English garden wall bond brick (5 and one); Welsh slate roof with rendered chimneys and yellow pots. Main elevation: 2 storeys, 3 and 4 bays; giant pilasters frame end bays; sash windows have glazing bars and projecting stone sills. Left return entrance to Grey Lodge has bracketed hood; right return has principal entrance at right in Ionic porch, and 2-storey square projecting bay at left under hipped roof. Low-pitched hipped roof has ridge chimneys with octagonal pots. Rear wing has 16-pane sashes.

Interior: original 6-panel doors and architraves, and corniced chimney-pieces, throughout; entrance loggia has tiled floor and arcaded windows; re-used early C18 stair of one long flight and long landing balustrade has panelled closed string, moulded panelled handrail on turned balusters, square newels with half- balusters. Rear wing has moulded beams in kitchen.

Listing NGR: NZ2605743580

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Legacy System number:: 110524
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.