HOPE LEVEL ENTRANCE ARCH IN STANHOPE DENE

HOPE LEVEL ENTRANCE ARCH IN STANHOPE DENE, B6278

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230517
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: HOPE LEVEL ENTRANCE ARCH IN STANHOPE DENE
Statutory Address:: HOPE LEVEL ENTRANCE ARCH IN STANHOPE DENE, B6278

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230517
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: HOPE LEVEL ENTRANCE ARCH IN STANHOPE DENE
Statutory Address 1:: HOPE LEVEL ENTRANCE ARCH IN STANHOPE DENE, B6278

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: HOPE LEVEL ENTRANCE ARCH IN STANHOPE DENE, B6278

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 99067 39737

Details

STANHOPE B6278(West side,off) NY 93 NE Stanhope 34/136 Hope Level entrance arch in Stanhope Dene II

Lead-mine entrance arch. C19. Sandstone ashlar with chamfered quoins. Wide retaining wall contains round, keyed arch; recessed stone over arch inscribed F/GB. Top band continuous with quoins.

Historical note: here, in 1875, Major Beaumont demonstrated his newly-invented Diamond Rock Drill, which was used to cut the level.

Source: W. Morley Egglestone All Around Stanhope, Stanhope n.d. p. 129.

Listing NGR: NY9906739737

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 404896
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Egglestone, W M, All Around Stanhope129

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.