Prospect House
PROSPECT HOUSE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121606
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House
- Statutory Address:
- PROSPECT HOUSE, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121606
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROSPECT HOUSE, THE GREEN
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:
- PROSPECT HOUSE, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hamsterley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 11200 31081
Details
HAMSTERLEY THE GREEN NYll3l (West end) 23/57 Prospect House GV II House. Mid C18 with late C19 addition and alterations. Main block thin courses of squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings; rear additions snecked stone. Roofs stone flags, with stone gable copings, Welsh slate with yellow brick chimney and pantiles. L-plan with left rear added wing. Main block 2 storeys, 3 bays with one-storey, one-bay pent addition. Central half- glazed door in porch with bargeboards. Flanking canted bay windows with bracketed cornices; late C19 first-floor sashes, the central narrow, with roughly-cut voussoirs, partly obscured by ivy at time of survey. Roof has moulded kneelers, very tall end chimneys, and corniced yellow brick chimney on rear wing. Left pent extension with pantiled roof. Left return shows blank gable to main block, with boarded door in pent extension. Gabled 3-storey one- bay rear wing has late C19 sashes with flat stone lintels and sills. Interior: 6-panel doors in main range; dado rail in central passage; right ground-floor room has round-headed cupboard, with shaped shelves, and doors removed, to right of c. 1900 chimney piece; dentilled stucco cornice. Corner fire in C18 right rear wing, with C20 fire surround.
Listing NGR: NZ1120031081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111858
- 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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