Piercliffe

1-6, SOUTH CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250397
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1949
List Entry Name:
Piercliffe
Statutory Address:
1-6, SOUTH CRESCENT
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Date:
1999-09-04
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250397
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1949
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Piercliffe
Statutory Address 1:
1-6, SOUTH CRESCENT
Statutory Address 2:
16A, BAPTIST STREET
Statutory Address 3:
PIERCLIFFE, 32, ST HILDA'S CHARE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
1-6, SOUTH CRESCENT
Statutory Address:
16A, BAPTIST STREET
Statutory Address:
PIERCLIFFE, 32, ST HILDA'S CHARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Headland
National Grid Reference:
NZ 53018 33555

Details

HARTLEPOOL SOUTH CRESCENT
NZ 5233 & 5333
(north-west side),
Headland.
9/105 Nos. 1 to 6
(consecutive)
31.3.49

GV II

Includes No. 16A Baptist Street (rear part of No. 1 South Crescent) and No.
32 (Piercliffe) St. Hilda's Chare. Terrace of 7 houses, early/mid C19.
Stucco on brick, except for exposed brick frontage of No.1. Painted stone
dressings and chamfered quoins at angles. Welsh slate roofs. Gently curved
convex plan. 3 storeys. No.1 has pilaster-and-entablature doorcase to
left, below late C19 sash window with painted sill and wedge lintel;
2-storey mid C20 segmental-plan bay window to right; and three 2nd floor
windows with mid C20 casements, wedge lintels and sill bands. Nos.2 to 6
have wood pilaster-and-entablature doorcases to right. Nos. 2,3,4,6 and
32, have 2-storey canted bay windows flanked by pilasters. No. 5 has
similar ground-floor bay window and 2 first-floor windows with cambered
heads. Nos. 2 to 6 and 32 each have two 2nd floor windows with continuous
sill bands. Nos. 2 to 5 have late C19 sashes; others have mid/late C20
altered glazing; all doors renewed mid/late C20. Nos. 3 to 6 and 32 have
narrow blocking course at eaves; narrow blocking course and moulded eaves
cornice to Nos. 1 and 2 and both end returns. Continuous roof, hipped at
ends and concealed behind shallow parapet. 6 brick ridge stacks; gabled
roof dormer to No. 3. Left return has 2 windows to ground and first floors,
those to left being mid C20 casements in enlarged openings, sashes to right.
3 second-floor openings, that to centre having mid C20 casement, others
blocked. Right-hand return (No. 32) of 3 bays with round-headed central
doorway; mid C20 casement windows in original openings to centre and
right-hand bay; blocked openings to left-hand bay. Later extensions to rear
are not of interest.


HARTLEPOOL BAPTIST STREET
NZ 5233 and 5333
(east-side)
Headland

8/45 & 9/45 No 16A

GV II

Wrongly shown as No. 16 Baptist Street on 0.S. plan. See under Nos 1 to 6
(consecutive) South Crescent.


Listing NGR: NZ5292233538

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
432725
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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