Dryderdale Lodge With Entrance Piers and Walls to South
DRYDERDALE LODGE WITH ENTRANCE PIERS AND WALLS TO SOUTH, SHULL BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121573
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dryderdale Lodge With Entrance Piers and Walls to South
- Statutory Address:
- DRYDERDALE LODGE WITH ENTRANCE PIERS AND WALLS TO SOUTH, SHULL BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121573
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dryderdale Lodge With Entrance Piers and Walls to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRYDERDALE LODGE WITH ENTRANCE PIERS AND WALLS TO SOUTH, 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 LODGE WITH ENTRANCE PIERS AND WALLS TO SOUTH, 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 09339 32897
Details
SOUTH BEDBURN SHULL BANK NZ 03 SE (West side) 10/174 Dryderdale Lodge with entrance piers and walls to south GV II
Lodge, now a private house, with piers and walls formerly the entrance to Dryderdale (q.v.). Circa 1879 by Waterhouse for Alfred Backhouse. House sandstone rubble with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Walls rubble with ashlar coping; ashlar piers. House T plan with central leg on south elevation facing former drive. South elevations one storey, 3 bays, with porch at right of projecting gabled central bay. 2 steps up to chamfered segmental-headed open arch, flanked by diagonal buttresses with offsets, under flush ashlar band and steeply-pitched gable on moulded kneelers. Short catslide roof links porch with central projection. Boarded inner door from left return of porch into catslide section. 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows in front gable and under catslide; relieving arch and slit in gable peak. Left bay has tall corniced external chimney stack, battered above eaves level; corniced chimneys on front gable ridge and on rear external stack. Right return gable similar to front. C20 flat-roofed rear extension is not of interest.
Quadrant entrance walls terminate in low chamfered piers with plinths, broached from chamfers to bands under low pointed octagonal coping.
Listing NGR: NZ0933932897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111976
- 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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