Rudchester
RUDCHESTER, B 6318
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154705
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rudchester
- Statutory Address:
- RUDCHESTER, B 6318
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154705
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rudchester
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUDCHESTER, B 6318
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:
- RUDCHESTER, B 6318
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Heddon-on-the-Wall
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 11257 67367
Details
HEDDON-ON-THE-WALL B6318 NZ 16 NW (South side, off)
20/126 Rudchester
27.8.52
II*
House. Late C13 core, remodelled and extended late C18 and early C19. Dressed stone with plinth. Welsh slate roof. L-plan with later buildings filling re-entrant angle. Gothick style.
2 storeys, 4 bays. Half-glazed, Tudor-arched door with Gothick tracery in moulded surroundwith quatrefoils in the corner blocks, cornice over. Pointed- arched windows with intersecting glazing bars, those on ground floor in raised surrounds. On 1st floor to left of door a small C14 window with cusped ogee head. Hipped roof with banded ridge stacks.
On left return 3 bays. Pointed-arched windows with intersecting glazing bars in raised surrounds with roll-moulded edges; the centre bay has blank panels with similar surrounds.
Interior: Walls in rooms at south-east corner are c. 5 ft. thick. This part was a tower; its parapet and a stone water spout remain in roof space; on ground floor a large fireplace with moulded surround, the lintel carved with 2 shields and 2 crocketed swags; on the 1st floor a C13 or C14 window embrasure with Caernarvon lintel. Thick walling continues to west of tower. 6-panel doors and shutters. Dining-room fireplace has early C19 fluted surround with the mantelshelf supported by turned and fluted columns. Staircase with stick balusters.
Listing NGR: NZ1125767367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238611
- 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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