Summerhouse 180 Metres South East of Woden Croft
SUMMERHOUSE 180 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WODEN CROFT, B6277
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160214
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse 180 Metres South East of Woden Croft
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERHOUSE 180 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WODEN CROFT, B6277
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160214
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse 180 Metres South East of Woden Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERHOUSE 180 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WODEN CROFT, B6277
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:
- SUMMERHOUSE 180 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WODEN CROFT, B6277
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunderthwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 00942 20664
Details
HUNDERTHWAITE B6277 NZ 02 SW (East side,off) 11/70 Summerhouse, 180 metres south-east of Woden Croft II Summerhouse. Early C19. Snecked, squared rubble. Stone-flagged roofs. Square-plan centre block with set-back flanking wings. Gothick style.
2-storey, one-bay centre block has flush quoins. Pointed-arched opening with flush voussoirs. Wall sundial above flanked by square stone panels with incised crosses. Sundial has moulded sill and is inscribed:
Disce bene vivere et mori A THOMAS BRANSOM hoc SOLARIUM, relictum est Gratitudinis in memoria pro doctri- na accepta apud Woden Croft Lodge ab AD 1807 utque 1815
(Learn to live and die well. This sundial was given by Thomas Branson in grateful memory of the teaching received at Woden Croft Lodge from 1807 to 1815). Centre block has low-pitched pyramidal roof.
Wings have flush quoins and single window openings with flush lintels and projecting sills. Flat-coped parapets,with end blocks, conceal lean-to roofs sloping down to rear.
This summerhouse is similar in design and date to an example known as Monks House. (See item 11/53).
Listing NGR: NZ0094220664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111235
- 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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