Bishop Auckland Cemetery Lodge
BISHOP AUCKLAND CEMETERY LODGE, SOUTH CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196582
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop Auckland Cemetery Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOP AUCKLAND CEMETERY LODGE, SOUTH CHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196582
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop Auckland Cemetery Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BISHOP AUCKLAND CEMETERY LODGE, SOUTH CHURCH 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:
- BISHOP AUCKLAND CEMETERY LODGE, SOUTH CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Auckland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21492 29341
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ22NW SOUTH CHURCH ROAD 634-1/5/114 (East side (off)) Bishop Auckland Cemetery Lodge
GV II
Lodge to municipal cemetery. Probably 1884. MATERIALS: coursed squared stone with ashlar plinth and dressings and rock faced quoins. Lakeland slate roof, graduated in part, with stone gable copings and pierced dark grey terracotta ridge cresting. PLAN: irregular. EXTERIOR: Gothic Revival style. Single storey plus attic. 3 windows. Raised dripmould over Tudor-arched boarded door in steeply gabled porch to left of central bay. Central bay projects under gable and has canted ground-floor bay with stone mullions to 2 lights with trefoil tracery, and stone hipped roof. 3 shouldered lights above with sloping stone sills, and small slit in gable peak. Wide side buttresses to left of door and to right of central bay unite the two in one projection under 2 gables. At left, 3 trefoil heads and relieving arch to ground-floor window in ashlar surround with alternate block jambs, and 2-light window with pointed heads in gabled dormer breaking eaves. Right bay is set back further with similar windows and with pointed-arched boarded door with elaborate wrought-iron hinges, in moulded surround at left. Steeply pitched roof with ashlar peaks and fleur-de-lys finials. Right set back bay has roof slightly higher, and of graduated slate, with stubby right end chimney. Left part has tall stone-coped chimney at rear. Tall chimney rises from eaves of right return of entrance projection. Chimney pots all short, square and grey, possibly stone.
Listing NGR: NZ2149229341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385745
- 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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