27 AND 28, LOW GREEN
27 AND 28, LOW GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159617
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 27 AND 28, LOW GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- 27 AND 28, LOW GREEN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159617
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 27 AND 28, LOW GREEN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27 AND 28, LOW 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:
- 27 AND 28, LOW GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gainford
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 17011 16707
Details
NZ 1616 - 1716 GAINFORD LOW GREEN (South side)
9/115 Nos. 27 and 28 14.9.66 (formerly listed as The Vicarage) II
Former vicarage now 2 dwellings. Early C18 with alterations and additions in 1864. Coursed sandstone rubble, dressed sandstone right return and rear; main block has Welsh slate roof, wing attached to left has sandstone flag roof; brick and stone stacks.
3-storey, 5-bay main block, the right bay, return and rear rebuilt in 1864. Roughly-dressed quoins to left, tooled and margined quoins to right. Central renewed 6-panel door in chamfered rusticated surround; flanking 4-pane sashes have raised surrounds and projecting sills. Identical sashes to first floor and small 4-pane sashes to second floor in similar surrounds. Low-pitched roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers; two stepped and corniced stone gable stacks and similar ridge stack. 2-storey, 3-bay wing attached to left has C20 addition masking ground floor; first floor has 4-pane sashes in raised surrounds. Low-pitched roof, hipped to left, has brick ridge stack. Right return has similar fenestration and door lintel dated 1864. 2-storey, 3-bay rear has central French window and flanking tripartite windows; central pair of 16-pane sashes flanked by single 16-pane sashes to first floor.
Listing NGR: NZ1701216709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111068
- 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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