Crook Hall
CROOK HALL, FRAMWELLGATE WATERSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1159909
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Crook Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CROOK HALL, FRAMWELLGATE WATERSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1159909
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crook Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROOK HALL, FRAMWELLGATE WATERSIDE
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:
- CROOK HALL, FRAMWELLGATE WATERSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27449 43152
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWLLGATE FRAMWELLGATE WATERSIDE NZ 24 SE (North end, off)
4/151 Crook Hall 6/5/52 (formerly listed in Sidegate)
GV I
House. C14 manor house; C17 and early C18 link to mid C18 house. Coursed squared sandstone earlier part with Welsh slate roof; English garden wall bond later part with ashlar quoins and dressings and Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. At right end is 4-bay hall; left kitchen wing and C17 extension from which C18 house breaks forward. One high storey to hall, 2 storeys and 2 bays to kitchen wing; 2 lower storeys to 2-bay link; 3 storeys and 3 bays to addition; 11 bays in all.
Hall has 2-storey projection at left, 2 cupsed ogee-headed lancets at right; ruined right end, garderobe tower and chamber. Tudor-arched door in gabled M 2-storey projection has lintel dated and initialled 16 71 under bull's eye; I F small square window above has chamfered surround; central mullion removed. Rear elevation has 2-centred-arched door surround at opposite end of passage from main door. Interior: sandstone walls, part coursed and squared. Roof trusses perhaps C16, with truncated principals on tie beams, curved struts, and clasped purlins; ashlaring at eaves. Later fire-hood backs onto passage at front end, and is partly removed; brick wall supports massive stone lintel. The only domestic open hall known in County Durham.
C17 link has 2 gables over 2-storey one-window part at left and 2-storey-and- attic, 2-window part at right: horizontal sliding sashes at left in stone surrounds from which central mullion has been removed; at right, cross windows on ground floor, sashes with glazing bars above and blocked attic window. Interior: large wood lintel to fire at left; triangular-section blocks forming stair; ceiling beams with painted red undulating foliage.
C18 house at left; 3 storeys, 3 bays. Sashes with glazing bars, some wide in wide boxes; 2-storey entrance bay at right has door with 3-over-3 panels and 3-paned overlight in lugged architrave. Main house has sandstone lintel bands, 2-brick floor bands, moulded kneelers and end brick chimneys. Left return has massive brick chimney stack with offsets, and floor bands at differing levels from those of front; quoins altered at floor level, suggesting re-fronting of earlier house. Interior: High-quality stair has ramped grip handrail on alternate vase-and-column and rusticated-column balusters; carved tread ends. First-floor panelled room has round-headed niches, and elaborate chimney-piece, perhaps a composite of C18 and C19 work, with terms supporting garlanded corniced top. 6 fielded panels to doors. Stucco ceiling cornices and dove with basket, badge of Hopper family, pervious owners.
Source: V.C.H. 162-4.
Listing NGR: NZ2744943152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110203
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Derby, (1905), 162-4
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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