Stable Block of Fawnlees House and Mounting Block
STABLE BLOCK OF FAWNLEES HOUSE AND MOUNTING BLOCK, LEAZES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233097
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block of Fawnlees House and Mounting Block
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK OF FAWNLEES HOUSE AND MOUNTING BLOCK, LEAZES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233097
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block of Fawnlees House and Mounting Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK OF FAWNLEES HOUSE AND MOUNTING BLOCK, LEAZES LANE
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:
- STABLE BLOCK OF FAWNLEES HOUSE AND MOUNTING BLOCK, LEAZES LANE
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 06249 38480
Details
WOLSINGHAM LEAZES LANE NZ 03 NE (North end, off) Wolsingham 22/375 Stable block of Fawnlees House and mounting, block GV II
Stable block and coachman's house, with mounting block, now garage and house. Dated 1843. Painted rough render with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with ashlar and brick chimneys; stone-flagged roof on left extension. T-plan with left extension. Main building: 2 storeys, 7 bays, the central wider and projecting under low gable. Central boarded double vehicle entrance under fanlight with vertical glazing bars in elliptical-headed arch with keystone and stepped voussoirs; dated 1843 on keystone. Pivoted light above in similar surround has glazing bars and radial head. Boarded door in plain stone surround at centre of right 3 bays; 2-light windows at right and in all first-floor bays have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills, as have 3 ground-floor sashes, with paired lights, in left part; those in outer bays have segmental heads. Hipped roof has brick chimney over left ridge and octagonal ashlar chimney with plinth and cornice on right ridge. Central weather-vane has large bronze fox finial, partly eroded at time of survey.
Left set-back extension one storey, 3 bays, with boarded vehicle door at left; central boarded door, and right sash with late C19 glazing bars, have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sill.
Stone mounting block in front of right end window of stable building.
Listing NGR: NZ0624938480
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408540
- 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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