The Friarage
THE FRIARAGE, THE SPITAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139885
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Friarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE FRIARAGE, THE SPITAL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139885
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Friarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FRIARAGE, THE SPITAL
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:
- THE FRIARAGE, THE SPITAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yarm
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 42044 12533
Details
NZ 4212 YARM THE SPITAL (east side) 38/580 The Friarage
23.6.66
II
Circa 1770 on the site of a Dominican Friary and possibly incorporating some masonry from earlier house. Stone, stuccoed with a stone balustraded parapet with urn finials. Hipped double span roof of large Welsh slates with two stuccoed stacks in valley. Stone plinth. Three storeys. Entrance front of seven windows arranged 2:3:2. Early C19 sashes with glazing bars in moulded architraves with projecting cills. Central Victorian door with Gothic fanlight in rusticated sur- round under prostyle Doric porch. Similar features on other elevations but irregular back suggests more than one build. North wing, former domestic offices and possibly older in part than main house, part rubble and part painted brick, Victorian interior. Inside most original woodwork remains including doors and windows with enriched architraves, elliptical arches over corridors and a good staircase with three turned balusters to a tread, the middle one twisted, all hav- ing crisply carved quadrooned collars with foliage to bulbs below. Dado panel- ling. Some original plaster cornices, many restored. The Friarage was the home of the Meynell family, prominent local recusants also active in promoting the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Listing NGR: NZ4204412533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59648
- 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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