Dryderdale
DRYDERDALE, SHULL BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121572
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dryderdale
- Statutory Address:
- DRYDERDALE, SHULL BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121572
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dryderdale
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRYDERDALE, SHULL BANK
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:
- DRYDERDALE, SHULL BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Bedburn
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 08923 33082
Details
SOUTH BEDBURN SHULL BANK NZ 03 SE (West side, off)
10/172 Dryderdale GV II House. Dated 1879. By A. Waterhouse for Alfred Backhouse of Pillmore Hall, Darlington. Coursed sandstone rubble with plinth, quoins and ashlar dressings. Roof of Welsh slate with some synthetic tiles in repairs; stone gable copings. Irregular plan. French Renaissance style. Entrance front 2 storeys and attics, 6 bays, the first and fourth projecting under front gables, and 3- storey octagonal left corner tower. Gabled porch in second bay has double door in moulded segmental-headed stone surround; many-stepped side buttresses support stepped gable coping with mace finial. One-storey pent front extension to left gable under corbelled external stack, with central recessed monogram. Fourth-bay gable projects further, with 3-light windows, and 2-light window in gable peak. Varied fenestration, all stone-mullioned and transomed, includes large stair window to right of door, and paired half dormers in fifth bay. Steeply-pitched roof has paired octagonal chimneys on ridge and on front external stack; steeply-pitched octagonal tower roof has swept eaves on carved band. Ashlar-banded coped gables with finials. Left return, with vista to landscape dropping steeply away, has canted bay under dated gable in left bay. Rear elevation to garden in similar style but with first-floor canted oriel, on buttress, with steep roof set against large gable wall. Interior much damaged by fire, but plan and stone arcaded stair hall survive. Being restored at time of survey.
Source: owner's information; Kelly, Directory of Northumberland and Durham, 1902.
Listing NGR: NZ0892333082
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111974
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Northumberland and Durham, (1902)
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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