Yew Cottage
YEW COTTAGE, A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160285
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- YEW COTTAGE, A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160285
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW COTTAGE, A689
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:
- YEW COTTAGE, A689
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Windlestone
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 26320 28774
Details
NZ 22 NE WINDLESTONE A 689 (South side, off) Windlestone Park
9/82 (inset) Yew Cottage
GV II
House, at one time for the steward of the Windlestone estate. Mid C18, enlarged early C19 for Eden family. Painted render with painted ashlar dressings and rear painted quoins; roof graduated Lakeland slate with stone gable copings, roll-moulded ridge, and painted brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central door with 6 flat panels under 4-pane overlight, in tooled stone surround with scroll-bracketed cornice hood. 12-pane sashes above and in outer bays. Roof copings rest on moulded kneelers; end chimneys. Rear elevation has central door, sashes with glazing bars, and one window altered.
Interior: single-pile C18 house enlarged by altering rear. Front part has central dogleg stair with ramped moulded handrail on column-and-vase balusters and closed string; splat newels; upper end of first balustrade ramped down to accommodate string of next flight. First-floor chimneypieces have bolection- moulded surrounds below shaped fascia and cornice, with cast-iron grates. Rear part has central narrow open-dell stair with curved handrail on stick balusters and open string. Boarded doors in rear kitchen, 6-panel doors in upper rear rooms. Solid wall between staircases now has door inserted at landing.
Listing NGR: NZ2632028774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112282
- 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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