Former Chapel and Buildings Adjoining
FORMER CHAPEL AND BUILDINGS ADJOINING, MEETING HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233107
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Chapel and Buildings Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHAPEL AND BUILDINGS ADJOINING, MEETING HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233107
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Chapel and Buildings Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHAPEL AND BUILDINGS ADJOINING, MEETING HOUSE 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:
- FORMER CHAPEL AND BUILDINGS ADJOINING, MEETING HOUSE 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 07461 37188
Details
MEETING HOUSE LANE NZ 0737 (West side) Wolsingham 39/363 Former chapel and buildings adjoining GV II
Stables and Methodist chapel,later undertaker's premises, now outbuildings to Whitfield House, Front Street (q.v.) and joinery workshop. 1776 for the Wolsingham Methodist Society. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; roofs of pantiles with stone flags at eaves in parts. 2 storeys; 6 bays in all, stepped back. Left part has boarded vehicle door under loft door; pantiled and flagged roof. Joinery shop adjoining, former chapel,has sliding vehicle door with external saddle rack and harness hooks, and at right a blocked door with stone surround; flat stone lintels and sills to 2-light horizontal sliding sashes above. Right part has 2 doors, the left blocked and a window inserted, with flat stone surrounds;similar surrounds, one pecked lintel and one wedge lintel to sliding sashes at right and loft openings above; quoins to this part, those at left repeated from previous narrower front. Historical note: John Wesley preached in this chapel.
Listing NGR: NZ0746137188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408555
- 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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