Ramshaw Hall
RAMSHAW HALL, RAMSHAW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121836
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ramshaw Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RAMSHAW HALL, RAMSHAW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121836
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ramshaw Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAMSHAW HALL, RAMSHAW LANE
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:
- RAMSHAW HALL, RAMSHAW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Evenwood and Barony
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 15311 26494
Details
EVENWOOD AND BARONY RAMSHAW LANE NZ 12 NE (East side) 5/22 Ramshaw Hall 14/9/66
GV II*
House. Circa 1700, possibly incorporating an earlier building. Thinly rendered sandstone with ashlar dressings and projecting quoins; rear wing sandstone rubble with quoins; front range roof concrete tiles, with stone slates at front eaves; rear wing and left extension pantiled. L-plan. 2 storeys, 6 bays with small one-storey, one-bay left privy. Third bay is wider and contains narrow window to left of 8-panel door in architrave under scroll-bracketed stone hood; paired narrow windows above, trompe l'oeil over door. Plain stone surrounds to windows, all sashes; most renewed with 12 or 4 panes; early C19 12-pane sashes on first floor in 2 right bays. Steeply-pitched roof has 3 ashlar ridge chimneys with plinths and cyma recta cornices. Right return has 2-light chamfered,stone- mullioned attic window with leaded glazing; long 2-storey rear wing with irregular fenestration, all renewed. Rear has 2-storey, 2-bay outshut with 2-light stone-mullioned window, under catslide roof; inner return of rear wing blank on ground floor.
Interior: dogleg close-string stair with high grip handrail on diabolo balusters; panelling of C17 proportions in entrance hall and room to left, the latter with segmental-headed cupboards with shaped shelves and shell tops flanking plain stone fire. Large stop-chamfered beams in 2 main rooms. Many panelled doors of c.1700.
Empty at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ1531126494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111387
- 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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