Vicarage of St Mary Magdalene With Yard Wall and Gateway
VICARAGE OF ST MARY MAGDALENE WITH YARD WALL AND GATEWAY, BROOMSIDE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159147
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Vicarage of St Mary Magdalene With Yard Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- VICARAGE OF ST MARY MAGDALENE WITH YARD WALL AND GATEWAY, BROOMSIDE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159147
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Vicarage of St Mary Magdalene With Yard Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICARAGE OF ST MARY MAGDALENE WITH YARD WALL AND GATEWAY, BROOMSIDE LANE
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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:
- VICARAGE OF ST MARY MAGDALENE WITH YARD WALL AND GATEWAY, BROOMSIDE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Belmont
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 30567 43606
Details
BELMONT BROOMSIDE LANE NZ 34 SW (South side) 7/13 Vicarage of St. 16/10/75 Mary Magdalene with yard wall and gateway GV II (formerly listed as Vicarage)
Vicarage with yard wall and gateway at rear. 1861-2 by Walton and Robson of Durham and London. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roof. Stone rubble wall with ashlar coping and gateway; wrought iron gate. Gothic style. Main block 2 storeys, 2 bays under front gables; left service wing has 2 lower storeys, 2 bays; left extension one storey, 2 bays. Boarded door with forked strap hinges at left in 2-centred- arched surround under dripmould. Plate tracery in 2-light entrance-hall window and in window above entrance; right bay has canted bay window with steeply-pitched hipped roof; blank above, except for quatrefoil in gable peak. Flush ashlar band at first-floor sill level, interrupted by bay window. Service wing has 2-light stone-mullioned windows in left bay, single light in first floor at right. One-storey extension has vehicle doors and 2 single lights. Roof has steeply-coped ridge chimneys. Right return of 2 bays has trefoil heads to 2-light windows in left bay; projecting bow in right bay has shouldered heads to three 2-light windows. First-floor ashlar band continues from front. All windows have sloping stone sills.
At rear, flat-coped wall c.one metre high steps up to form gateway and continues to link to outbuildings. Wrought iron gate has scrolls of baroque character.
Sources: plans in possession of vicar, signed Walton and Robson of London and Durham, and stamped March 1861 with plan no. 5216; Morris and Harrison's Commercial Directory of County Durham 1861, p.15, giving Walton and Robson architects at 45 North Bailey and 18 Adam Street.
Listing NGR: NZ3056743606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110002
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morris, , Harrison, , Commercial Directory of County Durham, (1861), 15
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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