Layfield House
Layfield House, Urlay Nook Road, Egglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, TS16 0JN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139892
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Layfield House
- Statutory Address:
- Layfield House, Urlay Nook Road, Egglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, TS16 0JN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139892
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Layfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Layfield House, Urlay Nook Road, Egglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, TS16 0JN
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:
- Layfield House, Urlay Nook Road, Egglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, TS16 0JN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Egglescliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 41785 13480
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 7 June 2023 to amend the description, add a reference to Selected sources and to reformat the text to current standards.
NZ 41 SW
SP/244
0/244
EGGLESCLIFFE
URLAY NOOK ROAD
Layfield House
(Formerly listed as Leyfield House)
II
Railway worker’s house, circa 1840, for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR). Built of dark red brick in English garden wall bond, generally five courses of stretchers to one of headers. Welsh slate roof with overhanging eaves; brick and stone stacks. The house is of one and a half storeys rising from a slight plinth, being of four bays with windows with a small, single-storey entrance bay to the left (north-west). The entrance bay has a boarded door and a four-pane overlight. The sash windows have glazing bars and are set in six-inch reveals with slightly-cambered gauged brick arches and projecting, bracketed stone cills. To the first floor, facing the road, there are shorter trompe l'oeil windows. These have similar cills but without brackets. The road elevation retains a S&DR ceramic plate marked ‘D 13’. There are two chimneys to the ridge, one to the centre is brick, that to the right (south-east) gable also being brick, but with a stone cornice. Upper windows to the gable ends are nine-pane sashes. Later rear extensions are not of special interest.
Layfield House’s original narrow footprint was the result of being built between the S&DR’s Yarm branch line and the road. It was built in two stages, the earliest being the slightly smaller pair of south-eastern bays, this thought to be that shown on the 1841 Tithe Map, the full four bays being shown on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map surveyed 1855. The earlier half of the building may possibly have been built as a weigh house for the Yarm depot in 1826 but is more likely to have been constructed around 1833 by the S&DR as accommodation for a railway worker for the depot. The ceramic plaque (marked D 13) shows that it was a residential property owned by the S&DR. The house is thought to have been sold off by the railway sometime around the closure of the original Yarm depot in 1872, by the 1881 census the property (acquiring the name Layfield House) was occupied by a veterinary surgeon.
Listing NGR: NZ4178513480
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59664
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
'Stockton & Darlington Railway, The Yarm Branch' Yarm Branch Study Group of the Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (2022) (Cleveland Industrial Archaeology Research Report 14)
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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