Wool House
WOOL HOUSE, B 6278
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159610
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wool House
- Statutory Address:
- WOOL HOUSE, B 6278
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159610
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wool House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOL HOUSE, B 6278
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:
- WOOL HOUSE, B 6278
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marwood
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 04640 17273
Details
MARWOOD B 6278 NZ 01 NW (South side, off) Barnard Castle 12/59 Wool House
II
House. C17 with late C19 alterations. Limewashed rubble with boulder plinth, irregular quoins and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings and brick and rendered chimneys. Probably originally gable-entry plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays with one-storey, one-bay set-back left extension and full height rear stair wing. South elevation has early C20 gabled porch flanked by jambs of blocked C17 window; late C19 sashes on both floors in outer bays have stone jambs, thin stone lintels and sills; 2 blocked cross windows in central first floor bays have mullions removed. Roof has cyma-moulded kneelers, banded chimneys, rendered at left end and renewed brick on rendered plinth at right end. Left extension, probably former porch,has wide inserted window, and front right C20 boiler housing below lintel, probably of former door. Returns of house have C17 attic windows, blocked in right return, in gable peaks; left return of former porch has boulder plinth. Gabled stair wing has four 2-light windows, with hollow chamfered surrounds, mullions in 2 blocked windows at right of stair, label moulds over some, and horizontal iron bars over small square window at right to stone beneath stair.
Interior shows boxed-in beams; open-well stair with shallow risers, renewed balusters, chamfered newels (one renewed), with ball finials and turned pendants; panelled cupboard in blocked stair window; renewed handrail.
Roof has 3 upper-cruck trusses, the central supporting lath and plaster partition; with collars and 2 levels of purlins, the lower on blocks and the upper trenched.
C20 rear porch in inner return of stair wing not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ0464017273
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111423
- 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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