Bradley Hall Farmhouse

BRADLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, A689

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1232525
Date first listed:
31-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Bradley Hall Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BRADLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, A689

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1232525
Date first listed:
31-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Bradley Hall Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BRADLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, A689

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRADLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, A689

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 10837 36180

Details

WOLSINGHAM A689 (North side) NZ 13 NW 23/321 Bradley Hall 31.1.67 farmhouse

GV II

Manor house, now farmhouse. C14 in the possession of the Eure family; 1431 licence to crenellate; possibly C15 barrel-vaulted ruin the only visible survivor of this house. Late C18 addition of present house. Sandstone rubble with quoins,one of Frosterley marble; ashlar doorcase; roof of graduated Lakeland slate with stone chimney. L-plan. 4 vaulted chambers run north-south and contain arched doorways and fire arch; C20 vehicle doors fill openings. On right return the modern house of 3 storeys, 2 windows extends from the ruined wall which contains small square blocked window at right on first-floor level. Open-pedimented Tuscan doorcase at left of addition contains 6-panel door and patterned fanlight. Tripartite sashes in first bay and 12-pane sashes in second have painted wood lintels-and sills except for a painted wedge stone lintel over second-floor right window. Frosterley marble-slab as quoin at right, one metre above ground. Relieving arches, paired between ground-floor windows, probably related to tunnel or drain known to extend from this point towards River Wear. Low-pitched hipped double-span roof. Interior: one-foot- wide beam in ground floor between rooms; boarded dado; some early C18 doors.

Listing NGR: NZ1083736180

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
407907
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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