Preston Hall Museum

PRESTON HALL MUSEUM, YARM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140000
Date first listed:
06-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:
Preston Hall Museum
Statutory Address:
PRESTON HALL MUSEUM, YARM ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1140000
Date first listed:
06-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:
Preston Hall Museum
Statutory Address 1:
PRESTON HALL MUSEUM, YARM ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PRESTON HALL MUSEUM, YARM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Preston-on-Tees
National Grid Reference:
NZ 42974 15786

Details

NZ 41 NW PRESTON-ON-TEES YARM ROAD (east side) 10/554 Preston Hall Museum

6.10.83

II

Late C18 or early Cl9 house with large later C19 additions. Original rectangular block with service wing. Pinkish brick with stone plinth and first floor band, cor- nice and blocking course. Hipped Welsh slate roof. In front a projecting link to a large, stone porte-cochere of late C19 with neo-baroque treatment. Further extensions to left of similar date. Wrapped around the right hand corner a larger conservatory of circa 1900 added by Ropner Shipping Company. A pent link from house to a large domed glass pavilion with half-decagonal bows on three sides hav- ing hipped roofs. Arcaded walls with radial leaded heads, cast iron pilasters be- tween glazed panels. Garden front of original house shows large, three-window rounded bow. Sash windows with glazing bars under gauged brick arches. Six-window service wing runs to right. Lavish, later C19 interiors.

Listing NGR: NZ4297415786

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
59411
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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