High House Chapel and Former Minister's House
HIGH HOUSE CHAPEL AND FORMER MINISTER'S HOUSE, A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230009
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High House Chapel and Former Minister's House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH HOUSE CHAPEL AND FORMER MINISTER'S HOUSE, A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230009
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High House Chapel and Former Minister's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH HOUSE CHAPEL AND FORMER MINISTER'S HOUSE, A689
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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:
- HIGH HOUSE CHAPEL AND FORMER MINISTER'S HOUSE, 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 87264 38544
Details
STANHOPE A689 (North side) NY 8738 Ireshopeburn 36/103 High House Chapel and former minister's house GV II
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and minister's house, now chapel and museum. 1760; extended and raised 1871. Sandstone rubble with quoins, plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings.
Chapel: 2 storeys, 3 windows; house set back at left: 2 lower storeys and 2 bays, the left curved, and one-storey, one-bay pent left porch. West front of chapel has 4-panelled double door and shaped fanlight under wide 2-centred arch on pilasters; similar surrounds to flanking narrower windows all under drip moulds. Continuous drip mould to 3 first-floor windows in similar style with sill string. Round-headed louvred opening in gable peak has 2-centred-arched drip mould. North and south fronts have chamfered flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to 3 windows on each floor. All windows late C19 sashes.
House has boarded door in centre, in plain stone surround; 20-pane sashes; truncated left chimney. Interior: painted plaster above boarded and panelled dado; coved stippled-plaster ceiling. Slender, tapered cast iron columns, with abaci, painted in marbling with stencilled decoration, support 3 sides of continuous gallery with panelled balustrade on brackets; west gallery on wall behind high pulpit, which has pierced stylised flower patterns in Gothic panels; organ in west gallery. Communion rail on slender turned balusters; smaller balusters to west of side aisles. 12-sided ceiling ventilators with fret panels.
House has C19 kitchen range in front room, plain stone chimney-piece in rear room which has window shutters. L-plan stair has pierced cast iron panels supporting moulded handrail with Gothic newels.
Source: Clack and Pattinson Weardale Chapels Durham 1978.
Listing NGR: NY8726438544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404406
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clack, , Pattinson, , Weardale Chapels, (1978)
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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