Houghton Hall Young Mens Christian Association
HOUGHTON HALL, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184920
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Hall Young Mens Christian Association
- Statutory Address:
- HOUGHTON HALL, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184920
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Hall Young Mens Christian Association
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUGHTON HALL, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, FRONT STREET
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:
- HOUGHTON HALL, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 34436 49814
Details
NZ34NW HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING HALL LANE (east side) 7/46 Houghton-le-Spring Houghton all (Y.M.C.A.) (formerly listed as Houghton 26.4.50 Hall or Old Hall House under G.V. Church Street)
II*
Manor house, now club. Early C17. Limestone rubble with sandstone dressings. Nearly square plan. 3 storeys, 4 windows and 3 in returns. Ground and first floor windows 4-light, second floor 3-light, mullioned, in chamfered surrounds under label moulds. Door in third bay in flattened Tudor arch and chamfered surround with lozenge stops; high triangular panel over surround contains almond-shaped window. Similar doors in returns have moulding defining the pediment. Stone quoins and renewed ashlar parapet. Interior: main room ground floor has arcaded panelling, cornice, pilastered chimney piece. Architraves throughout; well stair balusters enclosed in hardboard, broad ramped handrail and square newel posts. Plaster: motifs of fleur-de-lis and rose on stair wall; rinceau frieze in principal 2nd floor room; highly decorated coved stair-well ceiling with sunburst centre panel. Source: Mackenzie and Ross View of the County Palatine of Durham; Newcastle 1834; p.354.
Listing NGR: NZ3443649814
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303202
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mackenzie, , Ross, , History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1834), 354
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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