CROXDALE HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1159140
Date first listed:: 10-May-1967
List Entry Name:: CROXDALE HALL
Statutory Address:: CROXDALE HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1159140
Date first listed:: 10-May-1967
List Entry Name:: CROXDALE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: CROXDALE HALL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CROXDALE HALL

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Croxdale and Hett
National Grid Reference:: NZ 27341 37856

Details

CROXDALE AND HETT CROXDALE HALL NZ 2737 17/50 Croxdale Hall 10/5/67 (formerly listed in Sunderland Bridge C.P.) GV I Country house. Probably C17; altered and re-faced c.1760, possibly by John Carr for William Salvin with Rococo plasterwork attributed to Guiseppe Cortese; early C19 alterations, including 1807 private R.C. chapel possibly by James Wyatt. Squared sandstone with ashlar south front. Graduated green slate roofs and old brick chimney stacks. U-plan. Classical style with Gothick chapel. 2-storey west front re-faced c.1760. 3 + 1 + 3 bays, the centre bay recessed. Raised-and-chamfered quoins at left, band between storeys, eaves cornice and low parapet. Double flight of steps to central replaced door in Roman Doric surround. Venetian window above doorway; flanking 12-pane sashes in raised surrounds. Low-pitched hipped roof with ridge stacks. 2-storey, early C19 south front: 5 bays with projecting, pedimented 3-bay centre. Sill bands, eaves cornice and low parapet. Mainly replaced sashes in plain reveals: tripartite sashes, with Venetian windows above in raised surrounds, in end bays; 12-pane sashes on ground floor of 3-bay centre. Similar hipped roof. North front has 3-storey, 5-bay centre flanked by late C18 2-storey, full- height semicircular bows. Centre has 12- and 9-pane sashes in flush surrounds. Bows have sill strings and Venetian windows on both floors. Rubble wall built behind sashes when chapel inserted into east bow. Steep hipped roof. 2 sashes with radial heads, running through 2 storeys and lighting staircase hall, on rear of west range. Large pointed windows on 3-bay east side and one-bay south side of chapel. Interior: Several ground-floor rooms with fine Rococo plasterwork, carved chimney-pieces and panelled doors in architraves. Staircase, with ramped and wreathed handrail on stick balusters, starts in one flight and branches into two. Elaborate staircase hall ceiling with central goddess and cartouches in Doric frieze. Drawing-room ceiling with central eagle. Library fitted with mahogany bookcases in late C18. Dining room, in west bow of north range, has severe late C18 decoration: panelling with fluted pilasters, Roman Doric entablature with bucrania, enriched Venetian window surmounted by carved wyverns and doorways with broken pediments. Gothick chapel: 3 bays divided by thin clustered columns with tiny capitals carrying octapartite vaults with flat bosses; sanctuary in bow with canted sides and canopied niches; gallery at opposite end. Also several first-floor bedrooms with similar, though more restrained, c.1760 plasterwork, chimney-pieces and panelled doors. The Manor of Croxdale has been owned continuously by the Salvin family since 1402. (C. Hussey, "Croxdale Hall - County Durham", Country Life, Volume LXXXVI, August-September 1939).

Listing NGR: NZ2732837866

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Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in August, , Vol. 86, (1939)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 7 Cleveland Part 13 Durham Part 41 Tyne and Wear,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.