AZALEA COURT GROVE HOUSE

AZALEA COURT, SHOTLEY GROVE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240560
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: AZALEA COURT GROVE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: AZALEA COURT, SHOTLEY GROVE ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-13
Reference:: IOE01/01231/03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240560
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: AZALEA COURT GROVE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: AZALEA COURT, SHOTLEY GROVE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: GROVE HOUSE, SHOTLEY GROVE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: AZALEA COURT, SHOTLEY GROVE ROAD
Statutory Address:: GROVE HOUSE, SHOTLEY GROVE ROAD

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 08708 52050

Details

NZ 05 SE CONSETT SHOTLEY GROVE ROAD (West side) Shotley Bridge 5/79 (inset) Grove House and Azalea Court GV II Formerly Shotley Grove House. House, now 2 separate houses. Dated 1826 on top of pediment (owner's information), for Joseph Annandale, paper manufacturer. Pinkish sandstone ashlar front with plinth; other elevations yellow sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings; some tooled; roof of thick graduated dark grey slates, with part of rear wing roof renewed in Welsh slate. L-plan. South garden front 2 storeys, 5 bays. Door of 6 panels over 3 vertical beaded panels, with patterned fanlight, in Tuscan surround with block capitals supporting open pediment, in second bay. 16-pane sashes in plain reveals have fine glazing bars and projecting stone sills; giant corner pilasters support eaves band, panelled over pilasters, and gutter cornice which breaks forward over pilasters. Low-pitched hipped roof; no chimneys visible. Right return 2 storeys, one bay, with semicircular bowed projection on ground floor containing curved French window under gutter cornice and blocking course; sash window above. Irregular set-back rear wing, with round-headed stair window. Left return 2 storeys, 3 bays, with similar ground-floor projection containing curved sash window. Set-back rear wing 2 storeys, 6 ground-floor windows; 3 first- floor windows and right round-headed stair window. All windows have glazing bars, those to stairs intersecting; tooled surrounds to returns of main block; flat lintels and projecting sills in rear wing. Extruded rear porch has C20 6-panelled door and sash window with glazing bars. Interior: narrow open-well, open-string stair has rounded handrail on slender stick balusters, with wreath and curtail; left ground-floor room has moulded stucco cornice, and chimney-piece with ribbon and foliage decoration; right room has moulded stucco wall panels, cornice with vine decoration, and wood chimney-piece with paired Ionic pilasters and green and white Wedgwood corner medallions. 6-panel doors, fluted architraves with block corners, and panelled window shutters throughout.

Listing NGR: NZ0870852050

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Legacy System number:: 439037
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.