Butts House
BUTTS HOUSE, THE BUTTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231313
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Butts House
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTS HOUSE, THE BUTTS
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04564/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231313
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Butts House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTS HOUSE, THE BUTTS
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:
- BUTTS HOUSE, THE BUTTS
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 99614 39008
Details
STANHOPE THE BUTTS NY 9939 (South end, off) 34/170 Stanhope Butts House 3.5.85 GV II
House. Circa 1760 and C19. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, some of millstone grit, and some quoins; stone-flagged roof with Welsh slate roof on left bay. 2 storeys, 4 bays, the left later and higher. Painted cyma-moulded square-headed surround to partly-glazed 6-panel door at right; large stair sash window with glazing bars at centre of 3-bay block flanked by first-floor sashes with glazing bars, all with irregular flat stone sills; left sash has one hinged pane at top. 2 small square ground-floor windows at left under flat stone lintels. Left bay has wood-mullioned cross window on ground floor, and narrow paired sashes on first floor, under flat stone lintels and with projecting stone sills. Large roof has ashlar-corniced end chimneys. Rear has 3 large first- floor 20-pane sashes.
Interior: stair visible through window has ramped handrail on tapered -column- and-vase balusters.
Listing NGR: NY9961439008
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406426
- 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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