The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, EAST GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159936
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, EAST GREEN
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02596/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159936
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, EAST 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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, EAST GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cotherstone
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 01330 19434
Details
COTHERSTONE EAST GREEN NZ 0119 (East side) 30/46 12/1/67 The Manor House II Large house. Possibly mid C17 core with early C18 and mid C19 alterations and additions. Rendered rubble with ashlar details. Graduated slate roof and stone chimney stacks.
Continuous 2-storey, irregular 5-bay front of 2 builds with raised quoins. 4-bay left section: partly-glazed 6-panel door in third bay in stone doorcase with banded rustication, superimposed architrave, pulvinated frieze and cornice hood. Wide late C20 canted bay window to left. Almost square, 2-pane sash in architrave to right; 4 identical sashes and surrounds above. One-bay right section, added in mid C19, has 2-pane sashes in projecting surrounds with chamfered sills. Roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers. Left end rubble stack with corniced rear section; tall rebuilt right end stack with top band.
Interior. Large bolection-moulded stone chimney-piece with corniced mantel set across corner of hall. 2-flight, cut-string staircase with stick balusters and ramped handrail. Roof structure: 2 upper crucks of heavy scantling, in older left section of-house, flank central cross wall; crucks are tenoned into saddles, have halved collars and support 2 tiers of trenched purlins. Similar C19 cruck of lighter scantling in later right section.
Link section attached to right return is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ0133019434
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111209
- 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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