Harbour House
HARBOUR HOUSE, HOLMHILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159042
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Harbour House
- Statutory Address:
- HARBOUR HOUSE, HOLMHILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159042
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Harbour House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARBOUR HOUSE, HOLMHILL LANE
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:
- HARBOUR HOUSE, HOLMHILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kimblesworth and Plawsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 28212 48288
Details
KIMBLESWORTH AND PLAWSWORTH HOLMHILL LANE NZ 24 NE (East side, off) 7/39 Harbour House (previously included in the Urban District of Chester-le-Street) GV II
Farmhouse. Early-mid C18 rear range; late C18 front range. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Graduated green slates on front; Welsh slates on rear range. Ashlar chimney stacks. T-plan: rear range at right-angles to front.
Front range: 2 storeys plus basement; 3 bays. Raised-and-chamfered quoins. Plinth and sill bands. 6 stone steps, with cast-iron handrails and stick balusters, to central doorway. 6-panel door and fanlight, with radial glazing, in open-pedimented stone doorcase with engaged Roman Ionic columns on pedestals. Windows in rusticated surrounds, iron-barred in basement; 16-pane sashes above. Eaves cornice and parapet,pedimented over centre bay. Pediment tympanum, with brick infill, has blind oculus in moulded stone surround. Parapet has low end piers with scrolled finials. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Lateral stacks with top bands. Left return: small carved head in oval on mid-wall quoin at junction between front block and added 2-storey, one-bay rear outshut. Early C19 fenestration: 2 wedge lintels inscribed DAIRY; one projecting sill inscribed CHEESEROOM. Set-back 2-storey, 2-bay rear range has steeply-pitched catslide roof with slightly-swept eaves and coped rear gable. Large 15-pane round-arched stair window on right return of rear range.
Interior of front block: entrance passage and flanking ground-floor rooms with early C19 plaster ceilings; panelled window shutters and 6-panel doors in wood architraves.
Listing NGR: NZ2821248288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109382
- 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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