Prospect House
PROSPECT HOUSE, EBCHESTER HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240410
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House
- Statutory Address:
- PROSPECT HOUSE, EBCHESTER HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240410
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROSPECT HOUSE, EBCHESTER HILL
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:
- PROSPECT HOUSE, EBCHESTER HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 10366 55133
Details
NZ 1055 CONSETT EBCHESTER HILL
(South side) Ebchester 17/38 Prospect House 6/6/51 GV II House. Circa 1820 rebuilding of late C18 house. Pecked and margined sandstone ashlar with tooled dressings and chamfered quoins; rubble right return and rear; roof of graduated Lakeland slate with ashlar chimney. 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. 4 steps up to central renewed glazed door, and overlight with glazing bars, in pedimented Tuscan doorcase, the entablature breaking forward over free-standing columns on plinths. Sash windows with glazing bars, and one late C19 window at right on first floor, in plain stone surrounds. Low-pitched hipped roof has wide central corniced chimney. Street elevation shows 6-panel double door and overlight, round-headed stair window and sashes with glazing bars, in plain surrounds. Interior: narrow open-well stair has rounded handrail on stick balusters, and wreath and curtail with acanthus-bud newel; some cast-iron grates, one original with fruit and flower decoration; some original plain chimney pieces; stucco ceiling cornices in principal ground-floor rooms, that at left with fruit and flower decoration, that at right moulded and extended when partition removed between hall and room; hall elliptical archway filled with panelled door and fanlight with mock glazing bars. All windows have panelled shutters; all doors panelled, in architraves; cupboards flanking fire in rear left room have square top doors with one fielded panel and L hinges. Basement has tooled stone lintel and surround to blocked kitchen range with cast iron oven by Porter and Co., Carlisle; and stone-flagged floor.
Listing NGR: NZ1036655133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438834
- 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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