Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, WEST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121492
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, WEST END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121492
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, WEST END
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:
- MANOR HOUSE, WEST END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedgefield
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 35457 28806
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 August 2016.
NZ 3528
13/60
29/4/52
SEDGEFIELD
WEST END
(West side)
Manor House
(Formerly listed as: Magistrate's Court House (previously listed as "Manor House")
II*
GV
Magistrate's Court House, formerly (and shown on OS map as) the Manor House.
Built c1707 (date on sundial above central first-floor window); C19 alterations.
Narrow red brick front and rear in English garden wall bond, with ashlar flush
quoins, on rubble basement; rubble returns. Renewed pantiled roof with brick
chimneys. Double-pile plan with central staircase to rear. Symmetrical front
of 3 storeys plus basement, 5 bays. Four C20 steps to central, Cl9 part-glazed
door and tall margined overlight in linked architraves with pulvinated frieze
and segmental pediment above. Basement has 8-pane horizontal sliding sashes.
Replaced sashes under gauged brick flat arches: 12-pane to ground and first
floors; 16-pane above; ground-floor openings enlarged. Replaced dentilled eaves
cornice of wood. Steeply-pitched, 2-span roof has raised verges, shaped kneelers
and 2 end chimneys. Left return has ornamented, double rainwater head.
Symmetrical rear, similar to front, has replaced 12- and 16-pane sashes, a
reinstated early C18 2-panel door to left of centre and an early Cl9 central,
mid-wall Venetian stair window.
Interior: 2 rooms (one on ground and one on first floor) and the reception hall and staircase with remnants of 2-panel panelling and cornices; several 2-panel doors in bolection-moulded surrounds. Spacious, 3-flight open-well staircase with landing rail has dog gate, at head of first flight, with wavy splat balusters; square newels; moulded,
closed string with barley-sugar balusters supporting a heavy moulded handrail
which is ramped at each turn. Staircase hall has wall string and ramped dado
with bolection-moulded panels. Palladian-motif stair window has detached Roman
Doric columns and entablature. Symmetrical, upper stair hall has five 2-panel
doors in bolection moulded-surrounds.
C20 brick building, attached to left of entrance front, not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ3546028805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112176
- 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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