Hurworth House Boys' Preparatory School

HURWORTH HOUSE BOYS' PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 38, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185917
Date first listed:
20-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Hurworth House Boys' Preparatory School
Statutory Address:
HURWORTH HOUSE BOYS' PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 38, THE GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185917
Date first listed:
20-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Hurworth House Boys' Preparatory School
Statutory Address 1:
HURWORTH HOUSE BOYS' PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 38, THE GREEN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
HURWORTH HOUSE BOYS' PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 38, THE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hurworth
National Grid Reference:
NZ 30660 10198

Details

HURWORTH THE GREEN NZ 3010 (North side)

17/84 No. 38 (Hurworth House Boys' 20.3.67 Preparatory School)

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House, now boys' preparatory school, c.1730. Brick with stone dressings: header-bond front, Flemish-bond rear. Graduated green slate roof with brick chimney stacks. 3-storey, 3-bay entrance front has plinth, raised-and- chamfered quoins, sill bands and eaves cornice. Central 6-panel door and radial fanlight in open-pedimented stone doorcase with engaged columns with fluted capitals and dosserets. 3-storey canted brick bays flanking centre bay. Windows in flat-faced surrounds: 12-pane sashes on ground and first floors, square 6-pane sashes on top floor. Low-pitched roof with stone-coped gables and end stacks. 3-storey, 3-bay rear has plinth, sill bands and eaves cornice. Central partly-glazed 4-panel door and overlight with patterned glazing in rusticated stone doorcase with engaged fluted columns. Elongated sash above door; round-arched sash window on top floor. 3-storey canted brick bays, flanking centre bay, with sashes in flat-faced surrounds.

Interior: dogleg staircase, of 4 flights plus landing rail, with moulded closed string, square newels, ramped square-sectioned handrail on thin turned balusters and ramped dado rail.

Late C19 and early C20 additions on both returns are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3066010198

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Legacy System number:
350422
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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