Water Board Cottages and Buildings Attached at Rear
WATER BOARD COTTAGES AND BUILDINGS ATTACHED AT REAR, SHINCLIFFE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121365
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Water Board Cottages and Buildings Attached at Rear
- Statutory Address:
- WATER BOARD COTTAGES AND BUILDINGS ATTACHED AT REAR, SHINCLIFFE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121365
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Water Board Cottages and Buildings Attached at Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER BOARD COTTAGES AND BUILDINGS ATTACHED AT REAR, SHINCLIFFE 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:
- WATER BOARD COTTAGES AND BUILDINGS ATTACHED AT REAR, SHINCLIFFE ROAD
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 28591 40978
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE SHINCLIFFE ROAD NZ 24 SE (West side, off)
4/408 Water board cottages and buildings attached at rear
GV II
Water company houses. Mid C19 for Durham Water Company, founded 1847 and functioning by 1849. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. L-plan. 2 storeys, 2 houses of 3 bays each and right extension of one storey, one bay; rear wing 2 storeys, 4 bays.
Cottages in Italianate style have doors in third and fifth bays, under 3-paned overlights, in enclosed porches; first door flushed, second 4-panel. Bracketed sills to windows, mostly paired margined sashes; some single renewed sashes. Blank gound-floor fourth bay. Giant pilasters define bays and support wide eaves bands. Within these, ground floor lintel band with bracketed cornices over windows. Similar cornices float above first floor windows. Low-pitched hipped roof has wide eaves resting on paired brackets. End and front chimneys with plinths and cornices, that at left end square with shaped coping. Yellow chimney pots. Right extension has boarded double door. Rear wing has flat- coped gables. C20 right extension on rear wing not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2859140978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110463
- 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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