Horsley Hall
HORSLEY HALL, A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229603
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Horsley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HORSLEY HALL, A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229603
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Horsley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORSLEY HALL, 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:
- HORSLEY HALL, A689
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanhope
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 96499 38240
Details
STANHOPE A689 NY 93 NE (South side, off) Eastgate 20/97 Horsley Hall 12/10/81 II
House, now hotel. Cl7 with C18 additions and C19 alterations in style of C17. Coursed rubble with some quoins and sandstone ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. 3 storeys, 8 bays, irregular. Boarded door in Tudor-arched surround with stone-mullioned overlight in fourth bay; recessed panel over door contains high-relief coat of arms with Greek motto. Chamfered surrounds to all windows, mostly 2-light; ground-floor transoms, ground and first floor ovolo-moulded mullions; single stair light between fifth and sixth bays; massive external stack between sixth and seventh bay, which is blank except for 2-light first-floor window. First-floor, gutter cornices to left. Fourth bay has 3-light windows, that on the second floor breaking the eaves under large gable; smaller gables over 3 windows to left and 2 to right. Roof has 3 large ridge stacks with panelled chimneys; similar chimneys on front stack.
Interior: rear stair removed to allow for installation of panelled ceiling, with moulded beams and baroque pictorial stucco low-relief roundels, said to have come from Cheeseburn Grange,Northumberland; also stucco wall panels and Gothic-style stone chimney piece. Front room has 2 white marble chimney pieces, both corniced and one with scrolled lugged pilasters in French style.
Listing NGR: NY9649938240
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404400
- 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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