Whitworth Hall
WHITWORTH HALL, STANNER'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160067
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Whitworth Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WHITWORTH HALL, STANNER'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160067
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitworth Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITWORTH HALL, STANNER'S LANE
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:
- WHITWORTH HALL, STANNER'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Spennymoor
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23650 34732
Details
NZ 23 SW SPENNYMOOR STANNER'S LANE (East side) Whitworth
5/69 Whitworth Hall 30/3/51 (formerly listed as Whitworth Park) GV II
House. 1891- c.1900 rebuilding, after destruction by fire of c.1845 house, on site of house owned from 1652 by Shafto family. Library wing said to be survivor of early C19 house. Sandstone rubble with ashlar plinth, ashlar and brick dressings; library wing rendered with ashlar plinth and dressings. Roof graduated Lakeland slate with ashlar-corniced brick and rendered chimneys, and roll-moulded lead ridge;rear slope Welsh slate. Irregular plan around rear courtyard. East elevation to garden 2 storeys, 7 bays; library wing set back at left and attached to rear outbuildings which join left return of main range. Front has tetrastyle porch with tryglyph frieze in third bay;half-glazed double doors under fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Ground floor has margined sashes in brick jambs under flat brick arches; projecting stone sills; right end bay blank. first floor has similar jambs and sills to 9-pane sashes (except for casement with Gothic glazing bars over porch). Eaves band lintels below top cornice. Ball finials on small pediment over entrance bay. Ridge chimneys. Set-back, one-storey, 2-bay outbuildings blank to front except for door to pent conservatory. Library wing attached to left end of outbuilding has one high storey, and one blank bay to front; left return has 3 French windows with high overlights. Coped parapet on eaves bands, continuing around recessed quadrant-plan corners. Right return has long service wing. Rear elevation of main range has near-central porch with hipped roof.
Conservatory not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2365034732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112271
- 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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