27-29 and 31, Front Street
27-29 and 31, Front Street, Wolsingham, DL13 3DF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232912
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 27-29 and 31, Front Street
- Statutory Address:
- 27-29 and 31, Front Street, Wolsingham, DL13 3DF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232912
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 27-29 and 31, Front Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27-29 and 31, Front Street, Wolsingham, DL13 3DF
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:
- 27-29 and 31, Front Street, Wolsingham, DL13 3DF
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 07428 37196
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 June 2024 to amend the name, address
NZ 0737
39/364
WOLSINGHAM
FRONT STREET (south side)
Nos 27-29 and 31
(Formerly listed as Nos. 27 and 29 (Whitfield Cottages))
31.01.67
GV
II*
Two houses. Dated 1677 for D M, in panel to right of second window. Restored c.1971 by D. Telfer. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone chimneys raised in yellow brick. Two storeys, four wide bays.
First house three bays with raised stone surround to boarded door between first and second windows; prominent gabled moulded hood over door; label moulds over three-light single-chamfered stone-mullioned windows, filled with lattice glazing; stone lintel to right of second window probably a former door; pedimented incised date panel above. Full-height half-octagonal bay at right, with quoins, under catslide roof. Second house has flat stone lintel to boarded door at right, and two storey half-octagonal bay at left. WHITFIELD PLACE inscribed at top left. Roof has right gable coping on curved kneelers. Three ridge chimneys at centre and ends.
INTERIOR: left room of No. 27-29 has wide segmental stone chimney-arch, the outer voussoirs joggled; salt cupboard at left; right room has early C18 panelling, with box-bed cupboard; rear stair wing an early addition, with close-string open-well stair which has high grip handrail on fat turned balusters; moulded square newels with melon finials and pendants; pulvinated string.
Roof has numbered trusses of curved principals with through purlins and collars; section of wooden guttering exposed at original rear, now in stair wing. Many early C18 doors and fittings. Rear ground-floor doors have flat Tudor-arched stone surrounds.
No. 31 has enclosed stair at left, with door at foot of stairs which has two square and two rectangular panels, the top panel pierced; early C18 window seat in upper room has fat baluster legs, panelled back.
Listing NGR: NZ0742837196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408289
- 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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