SEATON HOLME

SEATON HOLME, HALL WALKS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1231692
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: SEATON HOLME
Statutory Address:: SEATON HOLME, HALL WALKS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1231692
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: SEATON HOLME
Statutory Address 1:: SEATON HOLME, HALL WALKS

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SEATON HOLME, HALL WALKS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Easington Village
National Grid Reference:: NZ 41364 43520

Details

NZ 44 SW EASINGTON HALL WALKS (North side)

7/7 Seaton Holme (Formerly listed as 6.8.52 Easington old Rectory) I

Originally a rectory. In Local Authority use c.1930-1970. House of high social standing. C13 or early C14 with alterations and additions c.1600, late C18 and early-mid C19. Limewashed sandstone and limestone rubble; dressed sandstone buttresses, quoins and chimneys; several renewed brick stacks and steeply-pitched C19 and C20 Welsh slate roofs. Rough H-plan: original hall with parlour bay and cross-wing to right; cross-wing added c.1600 to left of hall range. Street facade: 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 bays, 2 storeys.

Hall range: C13 or early C14; 4 bays; 2 narrow stepped buttresses to front and rear; doorway in left bay. Major late C18 alterations involved insertion of 12-pane sashes and renewal of hall roof. Low parapet masks eaves. Rear has scattered fenestration including several 12 and 16-pane sashes and a C19 2-light window with round-arched heads. C20 brick gable stacks.

Projecting step-gabled cross-wing to right of hall range: C13 or early C14; one bay; 2 narrow stepped buttresses to front and rear. Roof entirely renewed c.1600, of curved-principal-rafter type (c.f. West Auckland Manor House, Co. Durham). Two 16-pane sashes with doorway to left. Traces of a large first floor lancet to rear. Early C19 2-bay wing attached to right has three 16-pane sashes and a moderate- pitch roof.

Projecting cross-wing to left of hall range: c.1600, street frontage and left return rebuilt early C19; 3 bays. Chamfered plinth and dressed quoins. Two 16-pane sash windows on ground floor and 3 above with chamfered reveals. First floor windows have projecting sills. Cornice with low parapet above. Moderate pitch roof. Corniced stacks project slightly beyond gable and rest on a row of 3 corbels. Fenestration of left return and rear renewed mid C19 in Tudor style. Tudor-arched doorway at rear also C19 but may incorporate older stonework. Remains of curved- principal-rafter roof.

Interior: Hall range has late C18 staircase. Cross wing to right has 2 doorways opening onto former screens passage.

Listing NGR: NZ4136443520

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Legacy System number:: 406880
Legacy System:: LBS

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