Briarmead
BRIARMEAD, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249892
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Briarmead
- Statutory Address:
- BRIARMEAD, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249892
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Briarmead
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIARMEAD, HIGH STREET
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:
- BRIARMEAD, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greatham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 49134 28192
Details
GREATHAM HIGH STREET NZ 42 NE (west side) 6/24 Briarmead 17.9.81 G.V. II
Wrongly shown on O.S. map as Hill House. House, 1883, by Philip Webb. Roughcast on brick with late C20 clay pantile roofs, raised stone gable copings and 4 rendered stacks corbelled out at tops. 2 storeys and attic, asymmetrical. Principal (west) garden front has narrow, pent pantiled roof on brackets, to right of ground floor, over one square (right) and one canted bay window. Lower monopitch-roofed open porch adjoins the latter and has a 4-panelled, ½-glazed door within. Paired windows to left of porch. 5 first-floor windows. All windows have segmental-arched heads, rendered sills and sashes with glazing bars. Timber boarded eaves soffit. Single, gabled dormer, with steep-pitched roof and late C20 casement window, repeated on rear (east) slope of roof. Short single-storey pent wing to left, and later adjoining porch by W.F. Linton, c.1905, with pyramidal roof. Gabled 2-storey and pent single-storey wings to rear (east), the former containing the principal entrance doorway. This is linked to street by a long pent loggia, open on its south side, with stop-chamfered timber columns and cobbled paving, and terminating in a crow-stepped ½-gable containing a segmental headed doorway with boarded door. Yorkshire sashes and casements with glazing bars, to sides and rear. Internal features by Webb, include panelled doors and architraves, window reveals and shutters, fireplace surrounds and staircase. Formerly known as Hill House.
Listing NGR: NZ4913428192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432115
- 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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