Red Barns House and Red Barns Hotel
RED BARNS HOUSE AND RED BARNS HOTEL, KIRKLEATHAM STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- RED BARNS HOUSE AND RED BARNS HOTEL, KIRKLEATHAM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60338
- 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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