Harperley Hall
HARPERLEY HALL, A68
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232522
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Harperley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HARPERLEY HALL, A68
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232522
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Harperley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARPERLEY HALL, A68
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:
- HARPERLEY HALL, A68
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolsingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 12726 34476
Details
WOLSINGHAM A68 (West side) NZ 13 NW 31/317 Harperley Hall 31.1.67 II
House, now County Constabulary offices. Late C18, for Marmaduke Cradock, and early C19. Main block sandstone ashlar; wing of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roofs of graduated Lakeland slate and Welsh slate, with ashlar chimneys. Irregular plan. Symmetrical main block of 2 storeys, 5 windows: central many-panelled double door with side lights and large plain overlight in Roman Doric. stone surround with half-columns and triglyph frieze. 12-pane ground-floor sashes reaching to ground level, and 12-pane first-floor sashes, have fine glazing bars, raised stone surrounds and projecting stone sills; bracketed cornice over central first-floor window, the lower panes painted over. Chamfered quoins. Parapet on eaves band has top band. Wing set back at right 2 storeys, 5 windows, with quoins to first bay; windows mostly sashes with glazing bars, some with ventilators inserted.
Low-pitched hipped roofs. Left return has 6 windows with full-height 2-window square projecting bay at centre, and 3 windows in full-height bowed projection. Service wing right return has 2 full-height canted bays,with side and overlights, flanking entrance.
Interior: corniced marble chimney pieces in some ground-floor rooms, which also have a variety of stucco friezes and ceiling roundels; enriched window pelmets in bowed projection; 6-panel doors throughout in fluted architraves with corner paterae; door-panels and ground-floor panelled reveals have fine lugged beaded pattern. Dado rail in hall and dining room. First-floor hall has fluted frieze with paterae. Late C19 square open-well stair in Jacobean style has square newels with obelisk finials.
Sources: Hutchinson History of County Durham I 1857, 630 and Conyers Surtees History of Thornley and Tow Law 1926, 21-24.
Listing NGR: NZ1272634476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407901
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Conyers Surtees, H, The History of the Parishes of Thornley and Tow Law together with the Lordship of Bradley, (1926), 21-24
Fordyce, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1857)
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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