53, THE GREEN
53, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159382
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1980
- List Entry Name:
- 53, THE GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- 53, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159382
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1980
- List Entry Name:
- 53, THE GREEN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, THE GREEN
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:
- 53, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cornforth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 31311 34385
Details
NZ 33 SW CORNFORTH THE GREEN (South side)
7/18 No. 53 25/9/80
GV II
House and wing, now 2 separate dwellings. Early C18 house; C19 addition. Roughly-coursed and squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings; brick addition with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof; stone and brick chimney. 2 storeys, 5 windows; addition of one high storey, one window.
Central Gothic-style door and margined overlight, probably early C19, in stone surround withpulvinated frieze and cornice. Flanking tripartite sashes, with glazing bars, wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills, in sections marked by long butt joins, suggesting earlier alterations. 12-pane sashes above have similar lintels and sills.
Steeply-pitched roof has high gable copings, resting on curved kneelers, and end chimneys. Right addition has late C19 sash with flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill, under catslide roof with right end chimney.
Interior of main house shows left ground-floor room panelled, with dado rail, and round-headed cupboard with keyed architrave; dogleg stair with turned balusters, the lower balustrade reducing to meet the upper. Collared roof trusses.
Listing NGR: NZ3131134385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112224
- 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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