Staindrop Hall
STAINDROP HALL, 20, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121755
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Staindrop Hall
- Statutory Address:
- STAINDROP HALL, 20, FRONT STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04869/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121755
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Staindrop Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAINDROP HALL, 20, FRONT STREET
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:
- STAINDROP HALL, 20, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Staindrop
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 13016 20601
Details
STAINDROP FRONT STREET NZ 1220 and NZ 1320 (South side) 17/138 and 18/138 No. 20 14/9/66 (Staindrop Hall)
GV II
House. Late C16/early C17 with C18 additions and alterations. Rendered with painted ashlar dressings; roofs synthetic stone slates and graduated Lakeland slates; ashlar and brick chimneys. H-plan original house with C18 east addition and smaller west addition. North elevation to road: 2 and 3 storeys, 9 bays, with one-storey, 3-bay right addition. 3-storey, 3-bay first build with one-storey set-back wings; left wing altered to 2 storeys and set-back 2-storey, 4-bay second build added. First build has 2-light ground-floor windows in outer bays, central 3-light windows above, and 2-light in right return, all with rebated chamfered stone mullions and those on upper floors with label moulds; right wing has similar 3-light windows on upper floors. Left wing has broad glazing bars and architraves to 6-pane light inserted in blocked door and 12-pane sash above. C18 left addition has step up to 6-panel door and tall 3-pane overlight in architrave in third bay, flanked by left inserted sash and right quartered round window; sashes with glazing bars and architraves on first floor in third and fourth bays. Right addition has central sash and small light at right. Continuous eaves to 2-and 3-storey parts. Hipped roofs with end and ridge banded chimneys. South elevation to garden shows first build with inserted ground-floor door and windows; label moulds over 3-light windows on upper floors, and with mullions removed in projecting left wing. Symmetrical C18 build projects at right, with canted central projection; varied glazing in original openings. One-storey west addition has inserted garage doors at left, and tripartite sashes with glazing bars in other bays.
Interior partly inspected: ground floor of first build has moulded plastered beams; large painted stucco coat of arms, with scallop in each quarter, on ceiling in front of fire, and scallop on corbel over fire; C18 cupboard with patterned glazing bars; closed-well stair in rear wing. C18 addition has dogleg stair with ramped grip handrail on column balusters and block tread ends; high quality stucco ceiling decoration with dentilled cornice in one and medallioned cornice in the other principal rooms. Carved C18 chimney piece brought from Gainford.
Listing NGR: NZ1299720596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111503
- 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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