Ceddesfeld Hall
CEDDESFELD HALL, RECTORY ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160001
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ceddesfeld Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CEDDESFELD HALL, RECTORY ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160001
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ceddesfeld Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CEDDESFELD HALL, RECTORY ROW
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:
- CEDDESFELD HALL, RECTORY ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedgefield
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 35659 28744
Details
NZ 3528 SEDGEFIELD RECTORY ROW (South side, off) Ceddesfeld Hall (previously 13/51 listed as "Rectory") 29/4/52
GV II
Former Rectory now Community Hall. 1793 for the Rev. George Barrington. Painted, pebble-dashed masonry; Welsh slate roof with rendered chimneys. 2-storey, 5-bay entrance front has low plinth; bays 2 and 4 projecting. Entrance front: central, 6-panel double door, with 3-pane side lights, in pilaster surround, has large semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars. Raised tablet above door has inscription to Bishop Shute Barrington of Durham (died 1826). Left bay has replaced double door and radial fanlight in recessed, round-arched wall panel; flanking 3-pane side lights. Right bay has 9-pane sash with radial head in identical wall panel. Other windows are 12-pane sashes with projecting sills; sill to central window dated MDCCXCIII. 2 small shields bearing the Barrington arms. Low-pitched roof has projecting eaves and is hipped over bays 2 and 4; 2 groups of truncated ridge chimneys. 2-storey,5-bay garden front has low plinth. Projecting, pedimented 3-bay centre has elongated 15-pane sashes to ground floor, 12-pane sashes above and oculus in tympanum. Flanking one-bay wings have shallow segmental bow windows with pilasters and 12-pane sashes; single 12-pane sashes above. Roof similar to entrance front. Pedimented right return to entrance front has 12-pane sashes and oculus in tympanum. Modernised interior has several 8-panel internal window shutters; 6-panel doors in moulded surrounds; 3-flight, open-well, cut-string staircase with stick balusters supporting a wreathed and ramped handrail; small square-headed fireplace in entrance hall.
L-plan service wing, attached to left of entrance front, now 2 private houses (see entries for Shute House and Barrington Lodge).
Listing NGR: NZ3566128741
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112166
- 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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