RED BARNS HOUSE AND RED BARNS HOTEL

RED BARNS HOUSE AND RED BARNS HOTEL, KIRKLEATHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1139613
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: RED BARNS HOUSE AND RED BARNS HOTEL
Statutory Address:: RED BARNS HOUSE AND RED BARNS HOTEL, KIRKLEATHAM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1139613
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: RED BARNS HOUSE AND RED BARNS HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: RED BARNS HOUSE AND RED BARNS HOTEL, KIRKLEATHAM STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RED BARNS HOUSE AND RED BARNS HOTEL, KIRKLEATHAM STREET

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District:: Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 59668 24923

Details

REDCAR KIRKLEATHAM STREET, NZ 52 SE south side 4/82 Red Barns House and Red Barns Hotel. - II*

Large house, 1868-70 by Philip Webb, for Thomas Hugh Bell; stables added 1875-76 and west extension 1881-82, also by Webb. Stable extended c.1900. West extension and stables now an hotel. Handmade multicoloured reddish brick in English bond; clay pantile roofs. Georgian vernacular revival style. 2 storeys and attics, 6 bays, the right end bay a projecting cross-gabled 1881 wing, now part of hotel; and lower 2-storey, 3-bay further right stable and extensions. 2nd bay of original house has gabled covered way, with later iron gate, leading to inset porch with round window; boarded door in right return of porch. Another round window on first floor of 3rd bay; other window sashes, with glazing bars and segmental heads, double at ground floor in 5th bay. First-floor sill string. 3rd bay raised to 3 storeys, with square-headed window and hipped roof. Main roof hipped at left, has slightly-overhanging eaves. Similar but irregular fenestration in right end bay with coped gable, and in stable and extensions. Asymmetrically-placed transverse and axial stacks. Left return shows canted bay window under tiled projecting gable overhanging at sides; and 2 hipped roof dormers with casements. Rear garden front has 3-bay main house at right, with altered projecting drawing-room and narrow gabled left linking bay to projecting west extension. A one-storey corridor projection links all 3 parts; and there are one-storey west extensions. Similar fenestration to front, and 2 tripartite windows in west block whose roof is raised to a pyramidal shape, with central stack, and has sprocketed eaves. Former stables,altered and partly concealed by later extensions, retain original raised, pyramidal-roofed lantern. Interior: house part retains panelling, shutters and plain boarded staircase. History: plaque on north of west wing : GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL AT ONE TIME LIVED IN THIS HOUSE. SCHOLAR, TRAVELLER, ADMINISTRATOR AND PEACE MAKER. A FRIEND OF THE ARABS. Of special architectural interest in showing Philip Webb's transition to a local vernacular style. Altered and extended former stables included for group value. Late C20 one-storey extension is not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ5966824923

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Legacy System number:: 60338
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.