Dinsdale Park Residential School
DINSDALE PARK RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, NEASHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185930
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Dinsdale Park Residential School
- Statutory Address:
- DINSDALE PARK RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, NEASHAM ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185930
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Dinsdale Park Residential School
- Statutory Address 1:
- DINSDALE PARK RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, NEASHAM ROAD
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:
- DINSDALE PARK RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, NEASHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Neasham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 34188 12083
Details
LOW DINSDALE NEASHAM ROAD NZ 31 SW (East side, off)
8/51 Dinsdale Park 20/3/67 Residential School
II
Former spa hotel, recently a Residential School. 1829 by Ignatius Bonomi for John Lambton, Lord Durham; mid C19 rear additions. Pink brick in Flemish bond; stone dressings. Welsh slate roofs with brick chimney stacks. Additions at right-angles to main block: 2-storey wing on right rear; double span on centre rear; single-storey wing on left rear. Classical style.
3-storey main block; 1:2:1:2:1 bays. End bays framed by brick pilasters; canted centre bay. Stone plinth, first-floor sill band, eaves cornice and parapet. 4-panel door and overlight, in late C19 roughcast stone porch, in bay to right of centre. Tripartite sashes in end bays. 15-pane sashes on ground floor, 12-pane on first floor, 9-pane on second floor. Cornice and parapet break forward over pilasters. Low-pitched hipped roof with transverse ridge stacks. 3-bay left return and 4-bay right return with similar details.
2-storey, 8-bay wing on right rear has 16- and 20-pane sashes under segmental heads, 2-storey canted bay windows in end bays and low-pitched hipped roof. 3-storey, 4-bay double range on centre rear has sashes and a low-pitched 2-span roof. One-storey, 4-bay wing on left rear has altered windows and a flat roof; large ashlar porch, with Tuscan columns in antis, at junction between wing and main block.
Interior altered in later C19 and C20. Some 6-panel doors in wood architraves, and panelled window shutters; ceiling cornices with Greek-Revival motifs.
Extensive C20 rear additions are not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ3418812083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350454
- 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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