Frosterley House Cottage and Arch Adjoining

FROSTERLEY HOUSE COTTAGE AND ARCH ADJOINING, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1231382
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Frosterley House Cottage and Arch Adjoining
Statutory Address:
FROSTERLEY HOUSE COTTAGE AND ARCH ADJOINING, FRONT STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1231382
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Frosterley House Cottage and Arch Adjoining
Statutory Address 1:
FROSTERLEY HOUSE COTTAGE AND ARCH ADJOINING, FRONT STREET

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FROSTERLEY HOUSE COTTAGE AND ARCH ADJOINING, FRONT STREET

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:
NZ 02791 36994

Details

STANHOPE FRONT STREET NZ 0236 (North side) Frosterley 40/195 House Cottage and arch adjoining GV II

House and carriage arch. Early C19. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings; roof of stone slates. 2 storeys, 2 windows and arch on left. Central 6-panel door in plain surround; flat stone lintels and projecting painted sills to late C19 sash at right on ground floor and to other 16-pane sashes. Low-pitched roof has end chimneys. Tall arch adjoining on left has voussoirs and flat stone coping.

Interior: cast-iron barred grate in first-floor room.

Listing NGR: NZ0279136994

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Legacy System number:
406519
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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