The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159444
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159444
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE OLD HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shincliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 29002 40687
Details
SHINCLIFFE HIGH STREET NZ 2840 and NZ 2940 (North side) 13/93 and 14/93 The Old House 29/1/85 II House. Late C17-early C18 with C19 alterations. Sandstone rubble, limewashed on main block and roughcast on wing. Welsh slate roofs with rebuilt brick chimney stacks. Main block with wing, containing cross passage, at left. 3-storey main block, originally 4 bays but now with two C19 openings on each floor. Rubble plinth and large, roughly-squared quoins. Replaced 16-pane sashes and blocked top-floor windows with projecting stone sills. Steeply- pitched roof with swept eaves and end stacks. 2-storey, 2-bay wing has cross-passage doorway with replaced door and patterned fanlight in open- pedimented doorcase. Replaced casement, 16-pane sash and late C20 archway to left. Steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves and tall central ridge stack. Full-height gabled wing, on rear of main block, has blocked pigeon holes and alighting ledges in gable. Interior of main block has large chamfered ceiling beams on ground floor; 3 roof trusses with adzed principal rafters, halved collars and a double row of purlins.
Listing NGR: NZ2900240687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109974
- 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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