The Rectory
THE RECTORY, HESLEDON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232033
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE RECTORY, HESLEDON LANE
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- Date:
- 2003-02-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/09348/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232033
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RECTORY, HESLEDON LANE
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:
- THE RECTORY, HESLEDON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawthorn
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 41765 45807
Details
NZ 44 NW HAWTHORN HESLEDON LANE (West side)
4/24 The Rectory
II
House, former rectory. Dated 1868. Limestone ashlar, steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs. Double-depth square plan with central staircase. Tudor revival style. 2 storeys, 3 x 2 bays. Entrance front: single bay and 2 slightly projecting bays including a cross-gabled bay to right. Chamfered plinth. Central door with 2-pane overlight and datestone under stepped hoodmould. Ovolo-moulded mullioned-and- transomed windows. Ground floor 6-light window in left bay under hoodmould. Cross- gabled bay has 2-storey canted bay window with 3-light window above. String course divides storeys. Gable parapets have chamfered stone copings and kneelers with ball finials. 2 ridge stacks with chamfered banding and one cross-axial stack. Gabled left return and 2-bay right return with mullioned-and-transomed windows of 4 and 6 lights. Interior has a 4-flight dogleg staircase with 2 stick balusters per tread.
Detached ancillary buildings to rear not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ4176545807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407347
- 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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