Newhouse, and Walls Attached
NEWHOUSE, AND WALLS ATTACHED
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232062
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Newhouse, and Walls Attached
- Statutory Address:
- NEWHOUSE, AND WALLS ATTACHED
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232062
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Newhouse, and Walls Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWHOUSE, AND WALLS ATTACHED
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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:
- NEWHOUSE, AND WALLS ATTACHED
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 87290 38878
Details
STANHOPE NEWHOUSE NY 8738 36/242 Newhouse, and 31.1.67 walls attached
GV II* House, now 3 houses. C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. Thinly-rendered sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; graduated stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. Main house: 2½ storeys, 7 bays; right extension 2 storeys, one wide bay, with wall attached to right. Garden wall in front at right. Sixth bay has partly-glazed 6-panel door in moulded square-headed surround under cyma-moulded label dripmould. Similar label mould over 6-panel door, with 2-pane overlight, in third bay. Second door and all windows have rebated stone surrounds; windows have similar label moulds, and flat mullions, with blocked holes for 2 vertical bars in each light except for 3 right ground- floor windows which have been lowered, probably in early C19. Slight rebating in window reveals and mullions to receive frames for glass,except in 3 left first-floor windows where glass is set forward of rebate, and in inserted stones in 3 lowered windows. Some vertical stones suggest there were formerly wider label moulds. 5 third-floor 2-light stone-mullioned windows. Cottage at right has 4-panel door and 2-pane overlight under flat stone lintel, and flat stone surrounds to 16-pane sashes. Wall at right has boarded door in alternate- block suround.
Roof has flat gable copings on cyma reversa-moulded kneelers; 2 end chimneys, with plinths and cyma reversa-moulded cornices; renewed rear chimney in similar style. Rear stair wings have flat-stone-mullioned windows with slight splays; and single lights with vertical iron bars in gable peaks.
Garden wall, running forward from left end, has doorway in chamfered alternate- block jambs, and shaped coping with ball finial.
Interior: left part has full-height close-string open-well stair with square panelled newels with long pendants and fat acorn finials, grip handrail, skittle balusters and pulvinated string; moulded risers. In right part of main house another close-string dog-leg stair with narrow roll-moulded handrail on splat balusters, lyre-shaped except on first flight, with pulvinated string. Many 2-panelled doors, the upper panel smaller, with E hinges; shell-canopied cupboard with shaped shelves and pull-out ledge in ground-floor left room; first-floor pine chimney-piece with architrave and dentilled cornice; some stucco ceiling cornices; original tied-on glass in window in right gable, blocked by addition of wing.
Historical note: the home of successive agents of the Beaumont lead-mine-owning family.
Source: W. Fordyce History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham 1857 I 673.
Listing NGR: NY8729038878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407376
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fordyce, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1857), 673
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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