South Building of Weardale Steel (Wolsingham) Limited
SOUTH BUILDING OF WEARDALE STEEL (WOLSINGHAM) LIMITED, A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232638
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- South Building of Weardale Steel (Wolsingham) Limited
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH BUILDING OF WEARDALE STEEL (WOLSINGHAM) LIMITED, A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232638
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- South Building of Weardale Steel (Wolsingham) Limited
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH BUILDING OF WEARDALE STEEL (WOLSINGHAM) LIMITED, 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.
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:
- SOUTH BUILDING OF WEARDALE STEEL (WOLSINGHAM) LIMITED, 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 08342 36811
Details
WOLSINGHAM A689 (South side) NZ 03 NE Wolsingham 22/329 South building of Weardale Steel (Wolsingham) Ltd. II
Former Wolsingham Ironworks. 1864 and later for Charles Attwood. Thin courses of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; asbestos-covered roof. One high storey, 2 builds of 10 and 7 windows; small low pent addition on rear elevation. First build has round-headed windows, with slender vertical glazing bars and overlapping panes, in chamfered alternate-block surrounds with sloping sills. Second build to north has square-headed windows with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills; segmental-headed vehicle door, between fourth and fifth windows, is partly blocked and has C20 doors inserted. Right and left returns have renewed sliding doors. Hipped roof with drum-shaped ventilators.
Interior: queen-post roof; girder frame supports crane along length of shop.
Historical note: C; Attwood, whose first works at Tow Law were for the manufacture of iron, was in 1862 granted patents for an improved method of manufacturing steel; it was cheaper and more reliable than the cementation method, and was said to have advantages over Bessemer's, which was patented in 1855.
Source: J. Robinson The Attwood Family Sunderland 1903, pp. 15-19.
Listing NGR: NZ0834236811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408015
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, J, The Attwood Family, (1903), 15-19
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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